web based connection terminal app for msn...

[keef247]

sounds crazy and i know this is going to be a bugger to explain... so bare with me on this...
what i want to know is...
1) is there any option to connect existing software based msn clients to connect the way a web based client would... for example ebuddy etc do. if that didn't made sense i'll try and simplify: make a msn client connect with the web-based clients connection route in other words other than the excisting servers software clients use.
2) is there a client that i can run in terminal that is a web-based msn client but runs text-based which i could use through terminal?
3) OR something that looks as if I'm reading text but is a text-based web-client for msn; in other words no branding/large banners/image banners that give away the obvious use of msn. this would be ideal at work on a linux terminal.

sorry for any misconfusion please feel free to ask and I will try and make it clearer if required.but please no flaming over the wording.

cheers

[directhex]

you seem obsessed by the whole "web" part

available in ubuntu are tmsnc and centericq

additionally, you can use any text-mode IRC client (e.g. irssi, bitchx) or jabber client (cabber, freetalk, mcabber) through appropriate configuration - see http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html for IRC-based MSN, see http://web.archive.org/web/200601050...r.org/network/ for MSN-capable Jabber servers you can connect to

[keef247]

yeah more trying to enthasise the point that its software based but web-based client connection methods apposed to the traditional software defaults which i don't want to use.

[Moby-Dick]

I dont follow - are you looking for a cheeky way to MSN from work ?

have you looked at http://webmessenger.msn.com/ ?

[ikonia]

Do you mean the session runs on a server - but you connect a front end via a terminal or a web based client, then when you dissconnect the connection stays alive hosted ont he server ?

[keef247]

you seem obsessed by the whole "web" part

available in ubuntu are tmsnc and centericq

additionally, you can use any text-mode IRC client (e.g. irssi, bitchx) or jabber client (cabber, freetalk, mcabber) through appropriate configuration - see http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html for IRC-based MSN, see http://web.archive.org/web/200601050...r.org/network/ for MSN-capable Jabber servers you can connect to

can you explain how i do this I'm pretty comfused its been along time since IRC. I have pidgin and I select add/edit to add irc but it wants user name etcc but i dont have a "IRC" login as such:S? you don't signup for it like .net hotmail do you:S I'm well comfused could you provide a small step by step of using pidgin for irc, making a new user for irc if i should need to and how to connect etc etc.
I apt-get install'ed bitlbee and got this

dave@mypc:~$ bitlbee
:localhost. NOTICE AUTH :BitlBee-IRCd initialized, please go on
ERROR :Warning: Permission problem: Can't read/write from/to /var/lib/bitlbee/.

just abit stuck to be honest.first time IRC user etc.well last time I used it was mIRC... and that was a long time ago..

Do you mean the session runs on a server - but you connect a front end via a terminal or a web based client, then when you dissconnect the connection stays alive hosted ont he server ?

No I mean ... Right you know a web-messenger based client runs off your browser and connects an alternative way yes? well I want a software client to connect in the way the Web-Based does...
that make sense?so it basically connects differently to the norm software methods...

[b0redom]

Sounds like you want a terminal (xterm?) based MSN client so it looks like you're working when in fact you're chatting to your buddies on MSN?

[keef247]

Sounds like you want a terminal (xterm?) based MSN client so it looks like you're working when in fact you're chatting to your buddies on MSN?

heh yeah and for it to connect on a web-based clients protocols but as you say be terminal run client thats software not web-based.

[directhex]

you could have save a LOT of confusion with a statement like "msn ports are firewalled, so i can't use a normal client"

to which the reply would have been something like "ah, but all msn clients can connect via http (web based) with no effort. pidgin it's a single tickbox in the account properties, for example"

[ikonia]

pretty much all the messanger clients have a "use http" option or a "use socks proxy"

[keef247]

you could have save a LOT of confusion with a statement like "msn ports are firewalled, so i can't use a normal client"

to which the reply would have been something like "ah, but all msn clients can connect via http (web based) with no effort. pidgin it's a single tickbox in the account properties, for example"

yeah but I did actually want one that runs in terminal that was text based. I know what you mean though.
thing is if I tick http in pidgin it still won't connect I get a notification error
so how do I do it? in the proxy drop down below and choose http? or socks 4/5 then what?
it asks for user/password etc etc.or do i google for free proxys and fill out info from them or what exactly?

[keef247]

directhex can you explain how to do the jabber thing though as I asked above before.

[d3fiant]

what about meebo, at my work MSN is blocked, as is the web msn site, but meebo allows u to log into multiple IM's in a single instance, might not be specifically wot ur lookin for tho

[directhex]

directhex can you explain how to do the jabber thing though as I asked above before.

jabber is an alternate IM protocol (used by google talk for example), which can interface with MSN with optional server-side stuff.

get a jabber account working on an MSN-enabled server, then read http://delx.cjb.net/pymsnt/docs/user.html to see how to make it work with msn users

[ikonia]

you need to use your works proxy as if you can't use your works proxy how do you expect to get to another proxy on the internet.

[keef247]

you need to use your works proxy as if you can't use your works proxy how do you expect to get to another proxy on the internet.

yeah I just would of prefered to use an external proxy.personal choce I guess mate.