How to Send formated text to Yahoo! Messenger

Kassit · Post by **Kassit** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:10 pm

Hi

i'm writing an application to send message to YM. i have two questions:

1- how to send a text via network without losing styles ?

2- is it possible to make communication between RichView and yahoo IM windows with applying text styles to that ?

Post by **Sergey Tkachenko** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:00 am

Sorry, I do not know YM protocols.
Does it accept HTML or RTF messages?

Kassit · Post by **Kassit** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:31 pm

I'm not sure about that myself. but i heard it uses Webbrowser and HTML.

i have seen some programs like pidgin that are not using HTML but it is possible to communicate with yahoo and applying text styles easily.

i think there is a standard protocol for more of messengers like YM, MSN, AOL and ... .

Post by **Sergey Tkachenko** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:50 pm

No, different messengers use different protocols.
As far as I know, all messengers listed by you have their own protocols.

Kassit · Post by **Kassit** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:08 am

I searched in internet but found no thing about protocols that they use. do you know any refrences to search about them ?

I thought it should be possible just by using HTML tags.

Post by **Sergey Tkachenko** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 5:55 pm

As I understand, YM protocol is private and not publicly documented.
Google returns many results on "yahoo messenger protocol", but I was not able to find more or less complete information. As I can see, even loggin in and sending a simple text message is not trivial.