[JDEV] Q: Non-anonymous conferencing?

[Jens Alfke]

Keith Minkler <kminkler at jabber.com> wrote:

> Using the groupchat protocol defined in
> http://docs.jabber.org/draft-proto/conference.html,
> you will see the user's real jid as the jid="" attribute of the
> jabber:iq:browse iq push..

Thanks! That'll work fine.

BTW, this ties in with my other question about buddy icons. To show buddy
icons in a chat window, you need to know how the people in the chat
correspond to the buddies in your roster.

Of course, even if I were using privacy in a conference, other people's
clients could send <iq><vcard> queries to my nickname jid, and my client
could recognize the nick address and send back a nearly-empty vCard with
nothing bug a special icon (picture of me with a bag over my head?) that I'd
specified for that particular chat. So buddy icons can be used with privacy
too. Neat-o.

But wait: doesn't the spec say that using privacy in a conference causes
non-message packets sent to your nick-jid to be blocked? Oops.

--Jens