Forums: Tabserve

You can even create your own free muggin with the I’M message for Windows Live Messenger just by registering yourself to the cause. Lets get it to $2million!

This update will now catch error 800 from the server. The server imposes a limit of creating 8 IM sessions in any 60 second period and will throw this error if you try calling createSession a 9th time. As such, the script is not suited for sending messages to more than 8 contacts in the same login session. All other changes are programming improvements.

This will be the final update for a while, if there are any major bugs reported I will fix them, otherwise consider this stable.

Download and check out Troubleshooting phpListGrab if you are having connecting problems (phpListGrab uses the same code base). I will also be posting more troubleshooting information for other problems I have recently discovered with server configuration compatibility.

Over the weekend I modified the class with the following changes:

• Function to manually create an IM session with a user.
• Function to send a message on the newest IM session.
• Font face and colour support for the sendMessage() function.
• Better error handling when connecting to the messenger server.
• simpleSend() function to send a single message like the original version.
• error property to get socket error.

Hopefully from here on out the skin reloading should not need to be updated for each Messenger build.

On a separate note, now that Messenger Plus! Live 4.10 has been released, you can use MemSkin+ and MsgPlus at the same time with no problems.

Mess Patch Generation 5 has just been released and now integrates patching capabilities for TabServe. The official patch for TabServe only works with MSN Messenger and I have never got around to updating it, so I was very pleased when Rolando proposed the integration. I hope to make a few final adjustments to the TabServe service for further Windows Live Messenger support before the end of the year.

Mess Patch is from now on the official patch for TabServe on Windows Live Messenger, the MSN Messenger patch will remain for legacy purposes.

Head over to Mess with Messenger and download Mess Patch Generation 5 for your version. The TabServe part is the fourth section in the patch, so if you are not interested in the other patch options you can simply just skip past them.

The first common one is the script displaying Failed to connect to server. after a delay (ie. the script will stall for a while then load the page with the message). This is usually due to a firewall blocking the connection. The Web server the script is running on must be able to create outgoing connections to port 1863. Most shared Web hosts will have this blocked for security reasons and you probably will not be able to get it unblocked. How you get around this is really up to you, my only recommendation is try another server.

The other issue is authentication failing. phpListGrab uses MSNPAuth to authenticate with Passport. The version which uses cURL is known to not work on certain configurations, if this sounds like the case, try using version 1.2.1 which simply uses fsockopen. This release of phpListGrab uses this, so there shouldn’t be many people running into this one.

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Do not click those links. There maybe be different variants of the message but they will all contain the same link. Once you click it, you will be prompted to download an exe (at least when I did via Firefox). When run, it will infect your system and spread the message. So be careful, never click anything you don’t know about. More news about this and possible solutions to follow.

Update: The domain name has been removed so the threat has been removed. Quick thinking has prevented a major annoyance Or not! It’s now on a slightly different domain, see comment by Ian below.

	function grab($server = 'messenger.hotmail.com')

Both copies in downloads and sandbox have been updated.

The download package contains everything to up and go right away. To use the class, you can initiate it like this:

$phplistgrab = new phpListGrab($passport, $password);
$ret = $phplistgrab->grab();

$passport would be the e-mail address that is being used
$password would be the password for that account

If $ret is true then it worked, and you can get the data from $phplistgrab->lists.

To output the forward list (contacts), you would do it like this:

foreach ($phplistgrab->lists[LIST_FORWARD] as $contact)
{
    echo "$contact['passport'] (".htmlentities($contact['friendlyname']).")<br />\n";
}

You can get data from each list using the follow constants:

LIST_ALLOW
LIST_BLOCK
LIST_FORWARD
LIST_REVERSE

I understand people have (moral) issues with this being released, but this was created with honest intentions and I am only posting this to hopefully stop continual code begging.

Live version also up in the sandbox.