[Pidgin] #3360: Chat Room Support in Google Talk

Sat Jun 7 17:14:38 EDT 2008

#3360: Chat Room Support in Google Talk
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  Reporter:  onlineapps   |       Owner:  seanegan
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:          
 Component:  Google Talk  |     Version:  2.2.0   
Resolution:               |    Keywords:  chat    
   Pending:  0            |  
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Comment (by chipwizme):

 Replying to [ticket:3360 onlineapps]:
 > Google Talk's flash app has support for chat rooms.  But Pidgin doesn't.
 Why not reverse-engineer it?

 This is how it works:

 When someone invites you to a group chat, but you aren't using the google
 talk gadget, the server sends you the message:

 {{{
 <message to='christian at freedomofknowledge.org' type='chat'
 from='chipwizme at gmail.com/gmail.56E2E6BB'>
         <body>Christian Wisner-Carlson has invited you to a group chat.
 Click here to join the conversation:
 http://hostedtalkgadget.google.com/a/freedomofknowledge.org/talkgadget/joinpmuc?r=ClJS5jqNzLxqtqs2d2ra2b_rsj3Lyyp1DH6q01TIXyRm4wbMPEcFYpp0
 -ZUrY4RtG-zbL-lo7P94IFQtVTHLnM_l4f2Ed10zSmKyiozyG-
 VEYrjdEgzuahbXUDIXxXseoa4YAQ&si=1</body>
         <google-mail-signature xmlns='google:metadata'>7281a0a37d732938
 </google-mail-signature>
         <x xmlns='google:nosave' value='disabled'/>
         <record xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/archive' otr='false'/>
 </message>
 }}}

 if you click on the link (you have to have "remember me" enabled or it
 will prompt you to login) a page with a "launch group chat" button
 appears. examining the source reveals a line:
 {{{
 var room = "private-chat-ecad2d98-1347-43d9-8bdc-
 55b25a1b4814 at groupchat.google.com";
 }}}

 to join the chat in pidgin, paste everything before the "@" in the "room"
 box and "groupchat.google.com" into the server box.

 I propose a plugin to pidgin that intercepts the invite messages, uses
 wget or curl to login to google (see
 http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78451&topic=12022
 #authenticating-clientlogin ) and fetches the page, then joins the
 chatroom enumerated in "var room". Unfortunately, I'm a crappy coder, and
 have no idea how to write such a plugin. If anyone would like to do this,
 please email me (christian at freedomofknowledge.org) and i will give you all
 my pertinent research.

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