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Take AJAX to Your Email Inbox: Developing a Web-based POP 3 Client
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03/29/2006, By Alejandro Gervasio
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This article is the first of three parts series, you will start creating a simple web-based POP 3 client using AJAX, which will use "XMLHttpRequest" objects to retrieve messages from a mail server.
Indeed, it isn't shocking news that AJAX has introduced considerable changes within the development of client-side Web applications. This brand new way of conceiving web programs, which send http requests in the background without page reloads, has brought a plethora of possible implementations for popular software that originally was designed and developed for running as desktop applications.
Do you want to build web-based FTP clients, chatters, or full-fledged email applications, running all the stuff on the same web page? Fine, pick up a good understanding of AJAX, learn about its properties and methods, then develop the corresponding back and front-ends, and hopefully you'll end up with a http program that does its work at least decently. Of course, it may not meet everyone's needs, but what's the rush? After all, you can boost it with little hard work and effort, which can turn the program into a robust, reusable library.
As you may have guessed, in this article I'll make my contribution to the developing AJAX universe, by creating a simple web-based POP 3 client, which will utilize "XMLHttpRequest" objects for retrieving messages from a given mail server. The application I plan to develop will use a simple front-end for connecting to the mail host, displaying the messages and navigating back and forth across them. On the server-side terrain, I'll use PHP for accessing the mail server, pushing POP3 commands and reading messages from the inbox, which implies having the possibility of switching over to your preferred language and using it to create the application.
You can download the source code used in article from here.
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