It is perfectly possible to do this. The way the official Gmail Notifier works is by reading your IE Gmail and Google cookies and using those to login to Google.
I have already posted information on how it works on a post here.
It doesn't matter that Google have done this. You can still ask the user to login via the official website and then have a notifier program read your cookies and use them accordingly.
I made a post like a week ago in an mIRC scripting forum explaining how it can be done. (Even though my post is oriented towards mIRC scripting, it could very well be done in other scripting/programming languages).
I paste my post below for the sake of preventing a possible "minor slashdotting":
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Firstly, you will need my snippet for reading cookies from IE and Firefox, which I wrote and submitted sometime ago. (gimmie credit if you use that too:P)
This is how you do it:
1. You obtain the values for "GV" and "SID" off the Google/Gmail cookies. GV is stored in the cookie for the host "gmail.google.com", while SID is stored in the google.com cookie. Use my Firefox/IE cookie reader snippets to help you.
Note: In IE, it appears sometimes there may be more than one cookie for a host, in which case, you must obtain the cookie info from the one which was last modified. (For instance, I had 7 Google cookies in my IE Cookies dir for some reason, but only the 7th was the proper one.)
2. You send an HTTP request to gmail.google.com like the following:
3. Parse the page that is returned to you. It's a little HTML and a bunch of JavaScript arrays. I'm not gonna bother writing out this part 'cause you can easily try yourself and find out what token marks a message as unread, and other stuff. (Oh yeah, the page returned shows you how many invites you got left, too, where it says ``D(["i",<number>]´´.) Other things it shows include your usage quota, unread mail, a list of your available labels, number of messages in Inbox, their basic info (sender, subject, and also the text snippet if you got those enabled), the name of any attachments contained in whatever emails, date received, and there's probably more stuff that I haven't really figured out yet. You guys can do that. Just send emails to yourselves and watch how the output changes, and learn from that. Below is a sample from one of my tests...
<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"></head><script>D=(top.js &&top.js.init)?function(d){top.js.P(window,d)}:fun ction(){};if(window==top){top.location='/gmail?sea rch=inbox&view=tl&start=0&init=1&fs=1';}</script>< script><!-- D(["v","fa5b7549467dd5fe"] ); D(["p ",["bx_hs","1"] ,["bx_show0","1"] ,["bx_sc","1"] ,["sx_dn","Alan"] ] ); D(["i",1] ); D(["qu","2 MB","1000 MB","0%","#006633"] ); D(["ds",2,0,0,0,0,0] ); D(["ct",[["bloggers",0] ,["drafts",0] ,["foward s",0] ,["friends",0] ,["google",0] ,["hotmail", 0] ,["pointless",0] ,["school",0] ,["signup",0] ,["strangers",0] ,["temporal",0] ] ] ); D([ "ts",0,50,4,0,"Inbox","fdaeea5872",4] ); D(["t", ["fd9fab67bacc8e2",0,0,"Jul 8","\<span id=\'_user_thisemailisnot@real.com\'\>Robert C\</span\>","\<b\>»\</b\& g t; ","steeltiger image","k here it is, and one ive been working on for the computer version im looking for. based loosely …"
He was such a fucking asshole. He ddos'ed me and many of my friends (several times) and ddos'ed anirc server I used to frequent (irc.mircx.com) to its death (from the immense bandwidth charges).
Surely they will detect Firefox and make their servers show a gif of Clippo saying...
It looks like you're not using Internet Explorer.
Would you like help with installing IE, the world's best browser, as stated by our self-funded third-party research studies?
...of VBScript code to turn it off: --------------------- Set objFirewall = CreateObject("HNetCfg.FwMgr") Set objPolicy = objFirewall.LocalPolicy.CurrentProfile objPolicy. FirewallEnabled = FALSE
Yeah man, it's like sooooooo secure, so secure 3 lines of code can bring it down.
---
Set objFirewall = CreateObject("HNetCfg.FwMgr")
Set objPolicy = objFirewall.LocalPolicy.CurrentProfile
objPolicy.FirewallEnabled = FALSE
---
"secure Microsoft", what an oxymoron!
I don't know if you read it anywhere, but Google are only making 10% of the company public. There's still a nice big chunk of 90% of goodness, so I wouldn't worry so much.
Besides, have you heard how much that 10% is worth? It's a fucking insane shitload of money. I can't imagine how much the other 90% is worth! It's crazy.
(Clippo, from Office, featured in Firefox...)
Clippo: It looks like you're browsing pornography. You also appear to be typing with your left hand. Would you like to enable the spellchecker?
According to Star Wars movies, sound travels in the vacuum of space. Furthermore, in the first trilogy, many spaceships seemed to "fall" when they exploded.
Nobody complains about it though.
In "Mission to Mars", it was practically the same thing... in the end, the alien explained that they sent one capsule that seeded Earth with life.
(Ooops, sorry to spoil the movie. It's old anyway.)
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It is perfectly possible to do this. The way the official Gmail Notifier works is by reading your IE Gmail and Google cookies and using those to login to Google.
I have already posted information on how it works on a post here.
I made a post like a week ago in an mIRC scripting forum explaining how it can be done. (Even though my post is oriented towards mIRC scripting, it could very well be done in other scripting/programming languages).
I paste my post below for the sake of preventing a possible "minor slashdotting":
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I knew that Richard "Krashed" packet monkey...
He was such a fucking asshole. He ddos'ed me and many of my friends (several times) and ddos'ed anirc server I used to frequent (irc.mircx.com) to its death (from the immense bandwidth charges).
I hope he ends up in jail bigtime.
So you're playing Doom3 (maybe Doom4?) and a monster shows up and goes "GROOOAAWRL!!!",
then the game pauses and shows...
"Make your demon zombie breath smell better, with MENTOS!".
Didn't they say more than once that their OS is secure.
Now THAT's misleading advertising...
Of course this will work. There are no 1Tb hard drives to copy the.. ...oh wait.
Surely they will detect Firefox and make their servers show a gif of Clippo saying...
It looks like you're not using Internet Explorer.
Would you like help with installing IE, the world's best browser, as stated by our self-funded third-party research studies?
As any Hotmail user knows, Hotmail has this mysterious magical ability to fill up with spam the very millisecond you sign up for an account.
That doesn't happen to Gmail.
I believe I speak for many when I say
"Good try, Bill."
...of VBScript code to turn it off:. FirewallEnabled = FALSE
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Set objFirewall = CreateObject("HNetCfg.FwMgr")
Set objPolicy = objFirewall.LocalPolicy.CurrentProfile
objPolicy
I hate noisy computers.
When I'm watching porn, the noise is not only distracting, but obstrusive as I can barely hear the orgasms!
That is the worst fucking movie ever made in the history of scifi filmography!!
You can read my extensive review at my blog.
Gee, Microsoft's firewall is so secure you (and any virus) can disable it with no longer than 3 short lines of VBScript code...
Set objFirewall = CreateObject("HNetCfg.FwMgr")
Set objPolicy = objFirewall.LocalPolicy.CurrentProfile
objPolicy.FirewallEnabled = FALSE
Yeah man, it's like sooooooo secure, so secure 3 lines of code can bring it down. --- Set objFirewall = CreateObject("HNetCfg.FwMgr") Set objPolicy = objFirewall.LocalPolicy.CurrentProfile objPolicy.FirewallEnabled = FALSE --- "secure Microsoft", what an oxymoron!
Are they visiting Area51?
Are you an iMatch employee by any chance? You sound too happy about it. You seem suspicious.
I don't know if you read it anywhere, but Google are only making 10% of the company public. There's still a nice big chunk of 90% of goodness, so I wouldn't worry so much. Besides, have you heard how much that 10% is worth? It's a fucking insane shitload of money. I can't imagine how much the other 90% is worth! It's crazy.
3 days after the official release, a new exploit is found. You KNOW it's gonna happen. :/
(Clippo, from Office, featured in Firefox...) Clippo: It looks like you're browsing pornography. You also appear to be typing with your left hand. Would you like to enable the spellchecker?
How much does an eye cost?
According to Star Wars movies, sound travels in the vacuum of space. Furthermore, in the first trilogy, many spaceships seemed to "fall" when they exploded. Nobody complains about it though.
Then it wouldn't be DCC anymore. DCC is for direct connections.
Look at WASTE.
In "Mission to Mars", it was practically the same thing... in the end, the alien explained that they sent one capsule that seeded Earth with life. (Ooops, sorry to spoil the movie. It's old anyway.)