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msn contact grabber?

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:46 am
by psychotomus
is there any "working classes" for that can do this?

Re: msn contact grabber?

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:41 am
by Mark Baker
Unlikely to find them here, because it needs to execute on the client rather than the server (which precludes PHP), and needs to run with privilege to access files on the client (which also precludes javascript). The most common I've seen are ActiveX components.

Re: msn contact grabber?

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 6:25 am
by Chris Corbyn
Mark Baker wrote:Unlikely to find them here, because it needs to execute on the client rather than the server (which precludes PHP), and needs to run with privilege to access files on the client (which also precludes javascript). The most common I've seen are ActiveX components.
This is not true. You can grab contacts from MSN simply by taking the credentials and logging in over the protocol (server side). This is how Facebook and other sites do it.

But to answer the OP, I'm not aware of any existing solutions, but there must be some, almost certainly.

You can try grabbing information about the protocol here: http://www.hypothetic.org/docs/msn/

Also, this class might be useful: http://flumpcakes.co.uk/php/msn-messenger