Is it possible to copy javascript chat traffic to a file?

[Peabody]

This is probably the wrong place to ask this, so if there's a more
likely newsgroup, please let me know.

There are several NetNanny type programs which save to a file all of
the traffic taking place when somone participates in chat. But as
far as I can tell, all of these work only for the major chat and IM
services, such as IRQ, AIM, and so forth.

But I would like to capture chat traffic taking place in the chat
room of your typical website, which I assume is done with some kind
of javascript chat engine, and which can take place through wide
variety of ports. Basically I just need a text file which contains
everything I saw on the chat scroll.

Does anyone know of software that will perform that function?
Would it help if I know what port is being used for the chat? Or,
is there any way that Proxomitron could be used to "insert" a
save-incoming-traffic function into the code for a particular site?

If you were searching in Google, what would you search on to find
this. I spent an hour yesterday and came up empty.

 

[Toby A Inkster]

But I would like to capture chat traffic taking place in the chat
room of your typical website, which I assume is done with some kind
of javascript chat engine,

(a) I would be very surprised if you could find a JavaScript chat room.
Most chat rooms seem to be written in Java.

(b) In answer to your question, no. But try a keyboard logger?

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

But I would like to capture chat traffic taking place in the chat
room of your typical website, which I assume is done with some kind
of javascript chat engine,

Possibly, but that would be server-side JavaScript.

and which can take place through wide
variety of ports. Basically I just need a text file which contains
everything I saw on the chat scroll.

Where do you want the chat script stored? If it's on the client, the
only place you'd be able to put it (unless some numpty has piss-poor
security) is in a cookie, so the amount you can store is limited.

Does anyone know of software that will perform that function?
Would it help if I know what port is being used for the chat? Or,
is there any way that Proxomitron could be used to "insert" a
save-incoming-traffic function into the code for a particular site?

Are you just trying to monitor traffic going through your own computer?
If you are, you were right in your first sentence. Try
http://www.tucows.com/ to see if they have anything.

 

[Peabody]

Hywel Jenkins says...

Are you just trying to monitor traffic going through
your own computer? If you are, you were right in your
first sentence. Try http://www.tucows.com/ to see if
they have anything.

Yes. I didn't properly explain what I need. This not a
parental monitoring situation. It's just that sometimes I
would like to save a copy of all the traffic in the chat
room I'm participating in. Particularly when things get
technical, such as a discussion of the difference between
Java and Javascript after some doofus has mistaken the two,
and when the pace of the conversation starts to speed up, I
sometimes find myself missing things and wishing I had a
copy of all the traffic so I could go back over it again for
stuff I missed or didn't understand. So this is on the
client side, not the server.

I have found nothing at Tucows or downloads.com that
actually captures the text. However, there is a screen
capture program called SnagIt that might work, or at least
the description says it will. It just seems to be a kind of
overkill, and somewhat inefficient and inelegant, to use
what I assume is optical character recognition to recover
text that already exists as text elsewhere in that box.
But, that's all I've found so far.

And that being the case, the subject has just become pretty
much OT for this newsgroup. So I'll stop now.

Thanks.

 

[William Tasso]

It's just that sometimes I
would like to save a copy of all the traffic in the chat
room I'm participating in.

I believe some chat clients have this functionality built in.