Re: Question about comparing Remote image with Local one

From: A. Sinan Unur (asu1_at_c-o-r-n-e-l-l.edu)
Date: 10/10/03 

Date: 10 Oct 2003 01:11:03 GMT

viijv@thedifferenZ.com (Vijoy Varghese) wrote in
news:4c08aaff.0310082226.547ec7d6@posting.google.com:

> Hello Group,
>
> My final goal is to show a green/red gif image on my webpage when I am
> available on yahoo chat. Yes for this I could have used the url
> provided by yahoo
> http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=xxxx&m=g&t=2, where xxxx is my yahoo
> userid.

How about using the information on http://profiles.yahoo.com/user_id ?

There, your online status is indicated by an embedded image: online.gif or
offline.gif depending on your status. The image's alt text is IM. So your
script can just check the name of the image file to determine your online
status. Just an idea. 

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