Sametime

[David Woolley]

Nathaniel Babb wrote:
> Is there a way to have pidgin run from a web server that would enable 
> iphone / ipad to browse to it and connect to sametime with set parms? No 
> need to have a dedicated app. It's just a matter of communicating when 
> online. No pushes, etc. 

Firstly this doesn't relate to Sametime, which is probably a good thing, 
as I don't think Pidgin currently has any Sametime using developers!

If there is a port of VNC to iphone/ipad, you could run a VNC server (NB 
not a web server), on a Unix-like box, or possibly even under Cygwin. 
You may find the network traffic levels are unacceptable given mobile 
internet prices.  Actually, as there is a Java port of VNC, I assume you 
could definitely use a VNC solution.

If there is a X-Server for IOS, you could also use that to access the 
X-Windows version of Pidgin, although there would be similar network 
bandwidth issues, possibly worse, and greater security issues.

> 
> Would this allow for GPL development, etc and get this functionality out 
> to people?

Don't see how it would affect GPL development, and the network bandwidth 
might make the solution financially unacceptable, except over WiFi from 
a fixed network.



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