Sify Broadband Alternative client - probably soon

[cweihrauch]

Originally posted by Sushubh@Nov 26 2004, 06:27 AM
just making it a bit harder for any random guy to drop in there. same reasons for preventing googlebot's entry.
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stopping the google spider certainly makes sense .... !

 

[crazygamer]

Am trying for days to enter there. Now I know the reason 😉 I am a new registration so i will try to enter there asap.

 

[sourabh]

oh boy..tell us whats in there? 😛

 

[Sushubh]

not much. its lying dormant since some weeks.

 

[power]

That link in first post was very helpful .I am trying to know sify authentication from some time and always thought what info is sent to login.php 😉

 

[Bhaskar Kishore]

Well, if you want a windows client, i have one which is working.But i thinking about the legal angles of me release code and executable.

 

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[Sushubh]

sify dont ban anyone from releasing an alternative client. the dialer does not come with any EULA.

 

[ultra vires]

just post the client. they cant do anything to ya . sushubh is rite they didnt evr mention anythin regardin there client or that the client is there property ,lol

 

[Bhaskar]

Well you right that about one thing. It doesn't come with an EULA.I will release it on sf just as soon as i write up some documentation and make it presentable.

 

[ultra vires]

thnx a lot m8 just be sure to p@$$wrd protect the zip or rar file and give pwd to sushubh , so that sify guys dont take it.and sushubh can five the pwd to the users he trust 😛

 

[power]

YEAH YEAH COOL . Just doesnt want to eat 8 mb ram

 

[Bhaskar Kishore]

well the unoptimised version takes about 17% less ram that the sify client.I have exams right now so cannot bring the memory requirement down.i won't post the file here - i will put it up at sf.

 

[Sushubh]

you mean sourceforge right? great idea. that would give a legitimacy to the unofficial client. we do need an indian developers group working on creating indian specific solutions. 🙂also, consider joining the forum. it helps in keeping uptodate. though there is also a rss feed. 🙂

 

[anand]

I'm guessing sf=sourceforge?

 

[infernalproteus]

I have a java client ready. Command line - very basic rudimentary stuff - but it works 😀 (and should work on all platforms)It takes about 6.9MB of RAM - that is if it has to keep running - this is an improvement from thier java client which occupies about 14MB, however, I don't have a gui (I don't see any point in one anyway - but might put one in later). From what I learned - you only have to keep the client running if you have that hearbeat crap enabled. Otherwise - it will just log you on and exit like a nice program. If heartbeat is "enabled" but does not run,your connection just dies after 15-30 minutes.I'll do whatever I can from the memory point of view - but I don't know how much I can reduce the memory consumption. Java client was programmed pretty fast (with all the cool libraries). So, I'll see if I can redo it as a standard windows program too.Stay tuned.