Shallow Rampa - Jabber Telnet Bot Gateway

Jabber Telnet Bot Gateway

by dixie on Date unknown

Tagged as: chat, xmpp, app.

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).

Overview Picture

Developed for Atlantis Talker. Atlantis Talker uses Slovak/English languages mix. You can use it over the JID atlantis@atlantis.talker.sk on any XMPP network like gmail chat.

The development of Jabber Telnet Bot is discontinued.

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/Talker 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 service.

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

Download

• jabbertelnetbot–0.4.tgz
• jabbertelnetbot–0.3.tgz

Screenshots

Screenshot Pidgin (0.3)

Screenshot Gmail (.0.4)

Original Plan for next 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)

Following dependencies are needed:

• Python 2.5.2
• Python xmpp 0.3.1

For debian-based distros (Ubuntu) type following for installing them:

$ sudo apt-get install python-xmpp python

Extract JabberTelnetBot-X.Y.tar.gz

$ tar xfvz JabberTelnetBot-X.Y.tar.gz

Configuration

It is necessary to setup credentials for Jabber Account which is used by robot for reading incomming commands.

Template configuration is at cfg/ directory and it is python source file.

# 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

Usage/Start

For help:

$ ./jbtelbotd --help

For start:

$ ./jbtelbotd -d -v -c ./cfg/jbtelbot.conf

It starts Jabber Telnet Bot on foreground. You can stop it with CTRL+C on terminal.

It should connect and authorize to configured jabber server.

Usage/Chat

It is necessary add the bot into your other jabber account contact list.

When the bot appear as online it is possible send him messages which are send to established telnet connection. Any response from the telnet connection is sent back as message to given jabber user.

There is 1:1 mapping between jabber user and established telnet connection.