Jabber Telnet Bot Gateway

• Overview
• Source Repository
• FAQ
• Known Issues
• Download
• Screenshot of version 0.3
• Plan for Version 0.5
• Installation (Source Release only)
  • Extract JabberTelnetBot-X.Y.tar.gz
  • Configuration
  • Executing

Overview

Jabber Bot provides interface for telnet connection over XMPP.

It allows interaction with MUDs or Talkers over the IM clients (pidgin, gajim, gtalk, etc).

Original talker developed for is Atlantis Talker. Atlantis Talker uses Slovak/English languages mix. Test drive it using Jabber Bot over JID atlantis@atlantis.talker.sk.

Source Repository

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/jabbertelnetbot/

FAQ

• Q: Is this transport for XMPP server which allows interactions with other XMPP servers and user can add Atlantis user into Contact List ?
• A: No. This is bot which is something like a gateway over which user can create telnet session and interact with Atlantis or other telnet based server.

Known Issues

• To have working bot agaist latest jabberd 2.4 it is needed to do some workarounds:
  • disable digest-md5 http://jabberd2.xiaoka.com/ticket/233
  • disable SASL in the bot (I'll release such configuration option in 0.3)

Download

• jabbertelnetbot-0.4.tgz
• jabbertelnetbot-0.3.tgz

Screenshot of version 0.3

Plan for Version 0.5

Actually with help of guys at #pidgin I found exact limit on pidgin for rich text messages:

        /* Awful hack to work around GtkIMHtml's inefficient rendering of messages with lots of formatting changes.
         * If a message has over 100 '<' characters, strip formatting before appending it. Hopefully nobody actually
         * needs that much formatting, anyway.
         */
        for (bracket = strchr(displaying, '<'); bracket && *(bracket + 1); bracket = strchr(bracket + 1, '<'))
                tag_count++;

        if (tag_count > 100) {
                char *tmp = displaying;
                displaying = purple_markup_strip_html(tmp);
                g_free(tmp);
        }

• I'll add in next version support for this limit consideration during telnet->jabber message conversion.
• commands for control of telnet-jabber session, like "connect", "disconnect" (allow to connect on any telnet server)

Installation (Source Release only)

You need to have at least:

• Python 2.5.2
• Python xmpp 0.3.1

For debian-based distros (Ubuntu) type following:

$ sudo apt-get install python-xmpp python

# Atlantis host/port
ATL_HOST="atlantis.talker.sk"
ATL_PORT=23
# JID = login into jabber / PWD = plaintext password
JABBER_JID="meciar@gmail.com"
JABBER_PWD="nbusr123"
# This can be Set to None if JID contains all info
JABBER_SERVER=("talk.google.com", 5223)
# JABBER_SERVER=None