| Q1: How do I
contact AnfyChat ? |
email: anfychat@12planet.com
web:
http://www.anfychat.com |
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| Q2: Can I have
the source code of AnfyChat ? |
Yes! We do offer source code
licensing, please contact us for more details on the pricing.
E-mail:
anfychat@12planet.com |
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| Q3: I need a
custom built chat server software. |
We offer very competitive
priced development services, please contact us for more details on
the pricing.
E-mail: anfychat@12planet.com
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| Q4: I have
installed the latest release you sent me on a NT server, and it's
not working |
| You need to install the latest
Java VM from Microsoft available for free from http://www.microsoft.com/java/vm/dl_vm32.htm
. If possible, please also install Internet Explorer
5.0 |
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| Q5: I miss a
banner (gif/jpg) ad rotation system. |
| We made the choice to not
integrate such a system into AnfyChat in order to keep the applet
size small, and make it less intrusive. However there are many free
Javascripts that offer standalone banner rotation system. We may
offer in the future a separate applet that implements such a
system. |
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| Q6: I am an
ISP and I want to host different web domains with one instance of
AnfyChat server and I need a way to limit the usage by each
client. |
| There is a configuration
parameter on the server side that allows you to limit the number of
simultaneous users per room. |
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| Q7: Can the
applet be configured to remove all references to AnfyChat and your
company ? |
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If you host an AnfyChat server on your own, you
can remove any references to AnfyChat and customize all system
messages, buttons labels etc. This is a straightforward
process. |
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Q8: I maintain a web site for an
organization that want to have a private chat room to use for small
meetings. They would like the applet to:
1) be private
2)
allow chat moderation conferences (one speaker talking to the
visitors, and one moderator that accepts and filters visitors
questions before sending them to the speaker) 3) be able to print up
the dialogue from the meeting |
| AnfyChat allows you to setup password protected chat
rooms, but also to encrypt all your conversation using a 128bits
key, so your chat rooms are totally
secure.AnfyChat offers a
moderation interface to the chat administrators so they can decide
who can speak, which chat messages to display, etc. The user
interface for this is very straightforward. With the "Save" button,
with one mouse-click you can save all the chat messages to one HTML
page which you may save or print out. |
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| Q9: I am
behind a firewall. What can I do ? |
| This new release of AnfyChat
offers a HTTP tunneling feature that allows chat users to chat from
behind most firewall/proxies. However, some firewalls are very
restrictive, if they do not authorize HTTP data exchange on the port
10080, so you need either to ask your network administrator to open
this port for HTTP protocol or have the chat server tunneling module
run on the port 80. |
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| Q10: Where is
your Macintosh software ? |
| The chat server is Pure Java
based, which means that when you install a Java Virtual Machine on
your server (free), you can run AnfyChat server without any problem.
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| Q11: If
possible could you make a few changes to the chat rooms. Some people
have been found swearing and upsetting other members, can you add a
function so people cannot swear, by using other letters or i.e.,
"*&^()%$#" etc. come up instead. Can other people (teens, etc.)
enter my rooms or can they only enter the public
rooms? |
Other people cannot go into
your room if your room is private (i.e. not listed under the Public
group). The swear filtering system does already exist, just add the
following line to your site:
<param name="wordfilter"
value="word1;word2;....wordn">
Where word1, word2....wordn are
the words you wish to filter, separate the words with
";" |
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Q12: I would definitely go for
the JDK 1.1 specially because we plan to go for the pro version
shortly.
1) Where to get it?
2) How to install it?
3) Where
exactly it needs to be installed in the
server? |
| The JDK1.2 is compatible with
AnfyChat too.To get the JDK, you should go to the following sites:
SUN SOLARIS: http://java.sun.com/jdk/ Linux:
http://www.ibm.com/java/jdk/118/linux/ FreeBSD:
http://www.freebsd.org/java/ Windows 95/98/NT:
http://www.microsoft.com/java/vm/dl_vm32.htm or the web site of your
operating system if it's not listed here. The JDK is free on most
platforms. If you need to convince your hosting company, you may
tell him that AnfyChat is a Java chat server that is very resource
friendly and very reliable, we run it on our free chat network weeks
during along with our web server without any slowdown of the
machine. |
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| Q13: The
encryption module is "based on" blowfish, does this mean it uses
blowfish or an algorithm similar to it? What is the strength of
blowfish (this is symmetric-key cipher if I'm not mistaken)?
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| The username/password control
is a standard AnfyChat feature. The encryption module does encrypt
all messages using a encryption key that is stored or defined by the
user. The encryption module is an implementation of "blowfish"
algorithm, which is indeed symmetrical. The key strength may be
arbitrary long. You can define any key up to 128bits which is the
legal limitation in many countries. |
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| Q14: Every time I type nohup Java ChatServer it says
thunder:/www/chat# nohup Java ChatServer nohup: appending output to
`nohup.out' thunder:/www/chat# but I cant connect to the server with
the default ports. |
| Please type in "cat nohup.out"
to see what it says. May be your server is not running yet. Before
using "nohup", I would invite you to type in "java ChatServer" only,
and make sure it's working before launching it as a daemon using
"nohup java ChatServer &". This way you can see the error
messages more easily. |
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| Q15: If I use
your free client can I make a room that is called something else? I
am considering using your client on my fantasy baseball site.. I
would like the room to be called SuperTeam. Is that an
option?? |
| You just need to modify the
group name to your room name. Ex: change the line <PARAM
NAME="group" VALUE="FreeRoom"> to <PARAM NAME="group"
VALUE="SuperTeam"> |
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Q16: I've installed everything.
How does the chat customer create a private encrypted session with
another customer. I've set up the Java applet to autologin, but it
doesn't actually autologin. |
Please read the readme.txt file
in the secureclient.zip archive in order to setup the secure client
properly. Basically you need to add the following line:
<param
name="securekey" value="keyval"> in the applet code.
This
should make the button key to appear on the chat applet. Without
doing anything, the chat session is already encrypted, you may
verify this if you connect to the same chat room with a "normal"
chat client. You won't be able to read what's said from the secure
client. If two users don't want to use the default key, but need to
change its value so their conversation appears private even to other
secure chat client users, they need to click on the key button, and
enter the same value on both side in the pop up box that appears. To
activate the autologin feature, you need to add the following
line:
<PARAM NAME="welcomemsg" VALUE="n"> |
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Q17: We want to purchase a chat
server, I downloaded the evaluation version, but I couldn't install
it, I'm using win 98, when I typed ntsvc /install it responds that
the file only runs on win 32... Anyway I was searching for a chat
server and AnfyChat is the one I liked, I will appreciate if you can
help me to configure it so I can show it to my boss.
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Actually ntsvc /install should be used only on
Windows NT. Under win98, just type AnfyChat.exe to start the chat
server! If you don't have AnfyChat.exe in the package you have
downloaded, I would invite you to download it from our web site at
http://www.anfychat.com/softs/demo140.zip |
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Q18: I have been testing and
looking at your Java Chat and it looks like its just what we have
been looking for. Currently, we need to purchase a good reliable
program for use in an Online Community. We would like to request
from you additional info ... specially regarding admin functions,
and customizing functions, and a brief explanation on the secure
encryption module, like why would this be necessary. We are on a
Virtual Server under UNIX and I think, if I read well the
requirements, there would be no problem installing it and running
it. Congratulations on your product, it sure looks very interesting
and promising; so far its our favorite prospectus; in these times of
crisis, we are on a tight budget and your pricing policy sure caught
our attention. |
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Thank you for your interest in AnfyChat. We are
sure it will offer you the reliable chat service you need. AnfyChat
does run perfectly on Unix machines, the only thing you need is to
have the rights to run a server program on it. As for more
information over the chat server, I would invite you to download our
demo server from http://www.anfychat.com/softs/demo140.zip which
comes with an installation manual that explains the server features
more in detail. As for the encrypted chat client, this is necessary
when you need absolutely private chat sessions. This is based on the
same idea as the SSL protocol. Without encryption, as you know, a
hacker may intercept the TCP/IP packets that are sent over the
Internet, and read its content. Once encrypted, it's extremely
difficult for anyone to decipher the messages without the
appropriate key. AnfyChat is the only chat provider to offer this
type of protection. |
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| Q19: We have
the AnfyChat Server and on Windows NT, when I start the chat server.
It seems to be freezing? |
| You need to have IE5 installed.
Or you can just install the Microsoft Java VM that you can find at
http://www.microsoft.com/Java/vm/dl_vm32.htm. After updating your
Java VM, launch AnfyChat as usual. The server needs around 1 or 2
minutes to be fully started on Windows platform, please wait this
amount of time before trying to connect to it. |
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Q20: We are interested in your
product. It seems that AnfyChat meets the requirements of our
customers. We are a networking company located in Germany and have
customers who are looking for a solution like this. Is it possible
to make a customization on this software? Are you looking for
resellers ? |
| Thank you for your interest in
AnfyChat. We do offer customization work. Please let us know your
needs. We are also looking for resellers in all countries, if you
are interested, please send us your business proposal. |
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| Q21: I would
like to use AnfyChat with Linux Redhat 5.2 running an Apache server.
Is this any testing been done to support this platform
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| AnfyChat works very well under
this configuration. As a good example, our primary chat server
configuration is identical! However, if possible try to upgrade to
Linux 2.2.x, using RedHat 6.0 for example, then you can use the IBM
JDK 1.1.8 for Linux which offers much better performance than most
other Java VMs for Linux. |
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| Q22: I have
been trying to set up my AnfyChat Server. Inside the Infoserver
directory I have attempted to activate the chat server by entering
"Java ChatServer" and "jview ChatServer". Neither command has
worked. Instead I get a 'command not found' response. Could you
please offer suggestions. |
| This means that you don't have
a Java VM installed on your server yet. If you are hosting your chat
at an ISP's server, contact them so they install a Java VM on it. If
you have your own server, you should check out the Sun JDKs that are
available for free on their web site. If you have Linux, use the
Blackdown port of JDK. See the AnfyChat manual for more
details. |
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| Q23: I have
tested the retail AnfyChat server, and it seems to work well. We are
going in production this week so I need your advise whether it will
stand up to 100 simultaneous users ... :-) PS. We are running the
server on Novell NetWare 5, and it is really a great way of showing
the Java capabilities of our platform - Thanks for a great
product! |
| As for the number of
simultaneous users that the server can handle, it depends on your
server's hardware configuration, users' "chat intensity" and most
importantly on your Java VM. Under NT4.0, with a recent version of
"jview" (Microsoft version of Java VM) a Pentium 200 with 128 Mb of
RAM can handle around 500 to 1000 simultaneous "standard"
users. |
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| Q24: I cannot
believe how easy it was to get the chat server up and running? You
guys are unbelievable. Is it possible to change the color of the
navigation text boxes. |
| Currently they are blue and
very hard to read? I would like to change the color of the font on
the chat because it is difficult to read the name of other users.
You can indeed modify the colors, please modify the color values
defined in the Java applet parameters. You can change the font color
easily this way. You can also change the chat applet size
etc. |
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| Q25: How do I
start the chat server on my Unix telnet account? |
Please log into the system
through telnet, then type in "java", and verify what showed up? This
way you can know if the Java VM is on your machine or not. If it's
on it, it's easy to run the chat server, just go to the directory
where you have the chat server class files (cd AnfyChat/server for
example), then type in: "java ChatServer" to see if you get anything
up. If yes, hit CTRL+C to stop the current process, and type in
"nohup java ChatServer &" to restart the server as a daemon.
If this doesn’t work for you, try "java -classpath $CLASSPATH:.
ChatServer" You can test your connection to it by loading up the
page http://your_site_IP:10080 . If it tells you that the page
"/home/AnfyChat/www/index.html" is not found, then you are ok! Now
stop the chat server by typing CTRL+C, and restart it with nohup
java -classpath $CLASSPATH:. ChatServer & or nohup java
ChatServer & so you can keep it running even after you close
your telnet connection. |
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| Q26: I can not
start the chatserver on my Solaris server, when I type in: Java
ChatServer , the message I get is: Can'#C8D4EAt find class
ChatServer. |
| Make sure you are using the
bash shell, and that the ChatServer.class file is in the directory
where you are in and try java -classpath $CLASSPATH:. ChatServer
This will put the local directory "." into the classpath before
running a Java program. |
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| Q27: We are
very interested to buy your chat server for a community site. Our
web site has already a member management - that means that users
have a login and should not asked again for nick name when they
enter a chat room. Is it possible to pass the nickname as parameter
in the HTML ? |
| AnfyChat has been designed to interface
smoothly with customers' own login system when necessary. The
classic way to implement your need is to generate the chat html page
on the fly with your CGI login system. On the generated page, if the
parameters "username" and "autologin" have been defined, the user
will be automatically logged into the chat server with the correct
user name. |
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