plugins/yay/NOTES

Small scenario notes by Craig:

Here's the scenario:

The pager does the normal cookie retrieval thing with
http://msg.edit.yahoo.com:80/config/ncclogin?.src=bl&login=<USERID>&passwd=<PASSWORD>0&n=1&t=1

which gives you the cookies
(Y=n=<NSUBCOOKIE>&l=<LSUBCOOKIE> is all you need to keep).

( I was thinking that we might include a configurable option to "put" this into Netscape's cookies file
just like the Win32 version does. )

Then:

http://msg.edit.yahoo.com:80/config/get_buddylist?.src=bl&.l=<USERID>

if given the cookies
Y=v=1&n=<NSUBCOOKIE>&l=<LSUBCOOKIE> (where <NSUBCOOKIE> and <LSUBCOOKIE> were retrieved from ncclogin)
gives you the buddies list as:

BEGIN BUDDYLIST
<GROUP>:ID[,IDn]*
END BUDDYLIST
BEGIN IGNORELIST

END IGNORELIST
BEGIN IDENTITIES
<PRIMARYID>[,<OTHERID>]*
END IDENTITIES
Mail=<UNREADMAIL>
Login=<PRIMARYID>

You can get details of the people in your Yahoo!  Address book for which you have mentioned their Messenger ID with:

http://uk.address.yahoo.com:80/yab/uk/yab?v=PG&A=s
with cookies Y=v=1&n=<NSUBCOOKIE>&l=<LSUBCOOKIE>
gives:

1^I
<ID>:<FIRSTNAME>^I<LASTNAME>^I<EMAILNICKNAME>^I<EMAIL>^I<HOMEPHONE>^I<WORKPHONE>^I[01]^I<ENTRYID>

(the [01] is 0 if the entry's Primary phone is "Home"
and 1 if it's "Work")

so for me it **might** be:

ranec:Craig^IEmery^Iranec@yahoo.com^I+44 UK work^I+44 UK home^I1^I123

( I **really** want to get these entries retreived by libyahoo so I can use them as tool-tips on your friend's id's just like the
Win32 version does. )

Anyway after loging in and getting the buddies list and your address book entries, it periodically opens a connection to:

http://http.pager.yahoo.com:80/notify/

and I don't know the details of this traffic 'cause I've got no packet sniffing on Win23 (NT actually).

Has anyone else out there traced any of the "notify" traffic?

All I need is this and I can get GtkYahoo working entirely over HTTP (even HTTP proxies) and firewalls become irrelevant!