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Josh
Asked: 2009-09-25 08:28:40 +0800 CST

Open source jabber based website "live chat" / "live help" system?

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I don't know if this belongs on SF, SU or SO... let's try SF first.

I'm looking for a "live help" system for website which uses Jabber/XMPP as a backend... so that website visitors could click a "Chat Now" button, and using AJAX, chat with operators who are already set up using Jabber accounts. Something very much like J-Livesupport but without a jabber server (I already have one) and preferably OSS/free.

Openfire's Fastpath Webchat is perfect except you must use Openfire's Spark client. No dice there.

Before I build my own, anyone know of anything out there?

open-source

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  1. Best Answer

    Take a look at

    All of them rely on an existing XMPP server with HTTP-poll or HTTP-bind.

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  2. I have used other jabber clients with openfire before, pidgin specifically. I know they work. I have not used the webchat plugin though.

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  3. you can try http://www.plupper.com ... it's pretty mature tool with lot of additional features.

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