[AG-TECH] Spam sent to room text chat

Jason Bell j.bell at cqu.edu.au
Fri Mar 13 03:50:11 CDT 2009


Hi Guys

Not trying to "Dob in" Chris, but I know that for the APAG VenueServer, Chris Willing has managed to run our "own" Jabber Server for the APAG Server.

I have no idea how he has managed to do this, but you might want to ask him!

Anyway, just thought I would mention this...

Cheers,
Jason.


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Rowley [mailto:Andrew.Rowley at manchester.ac.uk] 
Sent: Friday, 13 March 2009 02:46 AM
To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Spam sent to room text chat

Hi,

It appears that there are too many problems in the AG Toolkit Jabber client to make it work with other servers.  I got it to work with openfire by changing openfire to send an id with single inverted commas instead of double ones.  This lead to other issues, the main one being that it assumes that the jabber server is conference.{sub-domain}, rather than checking with the server to see what it is registered under.  So jabber.mcs.anl.gov becomes conference.mcs.anl.gov without checks.  Other servers don't seem to do things this way i.e. they tend to make the server conferernce.jabber.mcs.anl.gov.  This is too fixed in the openfire code to change, so I have given up for now.

Andrew :)

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  Research Computing Services
  The University of Manchester
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Miller [mailto:mimiller at ncsa.uiuc.edu] 
Sent: 12 March 2009 13:33
To: Andrew Rowley
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Spam sent to room text chat


Andrew,

I had installed OpenFire a while ago and wasn't able to get it to work with the VenueClient.  Perhaps the quotes were the reason.  Please let me know if you need someone to test your fix.

thanks

Michael

"If you're clear in your vision and trust the people in your team with clear objectives, they will invariably do their best to achieve everything desired, and usually deliver everything you could have hoped for and even more." -Paul Debevec

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Rowley" <Andrew.Rowley at manchester.ac.uk>
To: "Natalia Costas Lago" <natalia at cesga.es>, "ag-tech" <ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:55:43 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Spam sent to room text chat

Hi,

Interestingly, I am looking at this at the moment.  Unfortunately, the Jabber client in the toolkit has a bit of code that assumes that the XML attributes use single inverted commas.  I am just fiddling with the Openfire jabber source code to add the appropriate bit that will hopefully make it work with single inverted commas (to avoid needing to upgrade everyone's client).

I will put it somewhere when I have done and let the list know.

Andrew :)

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  Andrew G D Rowley
  Senior Development Officer

  Research Computing Services
  The University of Manchester
  Devonshire House, Oxford Road
  Manchester, M13 9PL

  t :  +44 (0) 161 275 0685
  e :  Andrew.Rowley at manchester.ac.uk
  w :  www.manchester.ac.uk/researchcomputing

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-----Original Message-----
From: ag-tech-bounces at lists.mcs.anl.gov [mailto:ag-tech-bounces at lists.mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Natalia Costas Lago
Sent: 12 March 2009 11:44
To: ag-tech
Subject: [AG-TECH] Spam sent to room text chat


Dear all,

We received porn and ads to the text chat in our Venue Server Lobby
room. I have checked the jabber server the venue client uses is the following

       "VenueServer.textHost" : 'jabber.mcs.anl.gov',

I wonder if there are some documents that explain how to deploy our own
jabber server. Or at least a way an admin can add some filters to
avoid non allowed IP addresses send messages.

Thanking you in advance.
Kind regards,

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Técnico de Comunicaciones - Dpto. de Comunicaciones

Centro de Supercomputacion de Galicia (CESGA)
Avenida de Vigo, s/n (Campus Sur)
15705 Santiago de Compostela - SPAIN

E-mail: natalia at cesga.es
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