Sending a message to a flash chat

Hey everyone,

Basically I want to make a bot for a flash chatroom (chatango), but at the moment my number one main goal is just to make it display a message in the chatroom then I can take it from there.

Basically I only have this information:

String server = "www.<anychatroom>.chatango.com";
int port = 80;
Socket myBot = new Socket( server, port );
addr = myBot.getInetAddress();
System.out.println("Connected to " + addr);

I had a try and catch clause around it but you get the picture, it says I connected, it displays the IP address as well of the chatroom.

Now this is where I get stuck, anyone care to help, I basically just want to display a message in the chatroom via the code meaning I just type a message in the source code and run the code and see it display in the chatroom.

Appreciate any help, thank you.

Have you tried connecting to the socket's (myBot's) input and output streams yet?

Hey,

I found out how to post a message.

Now I want to retrieve messages, at the moment I have this;

sockInput = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( sock.getInputStream() ) );

sockInput.readLine().trim().toString(); <-- in a system.out.print clause

And Im getting like RAW data or Garbage with the message in there, here is what I am getting.

i:1289204103.9:Getsuga::56914708::3J20xFm6OwM_og== ::12:<nF5BE1B/><f x14FF3C02="1">i&apos;m saying you need to cure your anxiety and i have th answer
<p><f x12666="0">Lol</f></p><p><f x12666="0">Calm down.</f></p><p><f x12666="0">&gt;_&gt;</f></p>
i:1289204028.59:kurtCobain::50437136::3J20xFm6NQQw ow==::0:<f x14="0">shhhh
i:1289204005.11:Shark::46350389::3J20xFm6NAY-pA==::12:<nC/><f x110FF="1">heroes?
p:getsuga:1
b:1289204111.37:Gouken::86492368::8::0:MESSAGAGE:=


The word MESSAGE: <--- that I pretyped in, Gouken is my Bot in the FLASH chatroom, as you can see, you can see peoples usernames, and there messsages with a bunch of jumbled crap, anyways of fixing this ? Like a filter of some sorts ?

You need to find out what this "jumbled crap" is. Is it HTML? XML? This is less a Java issue and more of your finding out how the chatroom transmits messages.