ICQ online consultation button

can't open cmd.php

[Fokel]

Hi all,

There are a lot of examples of "Online Consultation" at different sites. You can see an ICQ sign, and a name.
It is supposed that when you click on that link, a message window will appear, and a chat session will start.

The link in this "online consultation" button is like that:

<a href="http://www.icq.com/people/cmd.php?uin=[ICQNUMBER]&action=message">Online session</a>

As far as I know, this is standart thing, based on the ICQ functions.
But when I click on it, all get is a standart download window, asking me whether I am gonna open "cmd.php" file (with notepad), or save it on hard disk.

Can anybody, please, tell me, why I do not get the message window? What else do I need to install or to fix, to make this online consultations work propely?

[bill]

Looks like you'd need to have your browser understand that it's supposed to open ICQ from that sort of link.

[Fokel]

Bill, it is kinda strange, because I see this "ICQ online consultation" at many web sites, and it makes me think that this feature is well supported.
I am using Opera 9.22, and also tried this in the IE 6 (windows xp OS), but always recieve the same result with download window for cmd.php file.

Have someone used this feature succesfully? I am trying to figure out what do I need to run it...

[encyclo]

The support is on the client-side, not the server-side - the above file returns an object with the mime-type

application/x-icq

. The browser has to be configured to recognize that mime type and associate it with the ICQ program on the local machine. You are seeing a download prompt because either you don't have an ICQ client installed, or because it is not configured in your browser.