New Chat in Beta Testing

The beta team is testing the userplane chat system. It's now fully integrated with SNS, so when you land in the room, it uses your AIM or AOL screenname. It also links back to you AIMPage, and grabs your photo from your AIMPage profile.

Give it a try today. It's in testing for a few weeks. General feedback so far has been users want ability to change the font style.

The video and audio features are very good.

Go Chat

Comments

Anonymous said…

We worked out a way for Userplane to utilize the VL6 local cookie in order for their flash module to get authentication. This requires a minor update to the host's VL6 site config xml listing Ueserplane's server IPs on an 'allowed' list. The way it works...

- Hosting application passes sitedomain + VL6 local cookie into UserPlane module
- Userplane takes the cookie/sitedomain and opens a server to server connection with SNS and validates the cookie getting user data back from SNS

So, if your app is thinking about using userplane you can work with them to enable this. They have the steps posted on a wiki and I am available if you need clarification.

This is a temp. solution until there is full interoperability between VL6 and auth open APIs. Ideal long term solution would be something where VL6 gets a ticket for userplane and userplane uses that with the open auth servers.

December 18, 2006 at 10:34 AM

Anonymous said…

In trying to clarify I may have confused.... IF you go to userplane directly they have integrated with authentication open APIs / IF you are seeing userplane embedded as a module on another 'hosting' application... then they use the VL6 cookie thing I was describing.

December 18, 2006 at 10:36 AM

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