We’ve been using Yahoo instant messenger for a few years within our company–we’re all spread out amongst several different offices. We’ve run into issues before where characters get converted to smileys unintentionally–as often happens with code–or with messages never being received, but today for the first time we actually had a message sent incorrectly.
Chafic’s window is on the left and mine is on the right. Notice the code in the middle, <html get’s converted to Zhtml. Not sure what caused that.
it most surely is because html parses its input and changes potentially unsafe parts of it to avoid IM floods and other script kiddies attacks.
In the past it was easy to make someone’s yahoo crash by sending him/her lots of messages with embeddeded html.
Also yahoomail will change every “evaluate(” strings with “review” in order to avoid cross site scripting vulns.
Sam,
One thing I’ve been watching the past year is ( http://www.artifactsoftware )’s server based product. I believe its still in beta, but has some really neat things applied to it, nothing else it’s worth a look. (One of those I wish I thought of..)
Cheers