[JDEV] AIM away messages. (was: AIM-t crashes)

[Thomas Muldowney]

Pres handling is a bit borked in cvs.  I'm working on it.

--temas


On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 18:12, Andrew J. Capule wrote:
> 
> --- "Andrew J. Capule" <drewcapu at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I use 3 different aim-t's for testing purposes (charente.de,
> > jabber.earth.li, netlab.cz), mainly to make sure i'm still
> > really logged in.
> > 
> > I mainly use netlab since charente and earth.li always have
> > "The
> > text has characters that cannot be displayed with this
> > system's
> > fonts..." error messages with away messages. Quite annoying.
> > 
> > In any case, sending the following xml doesn't bother aim-t at
> > all, resulting in a typical away message:
> > 
> > <presence><status>Extended
> > Away</status><show>xa</show><priority>10</priority></presence>
> > 
> > What's in between <show></show> doesn't really matter. Any
> > character(s) should put you in away status as long as you have
> > a
> > <status></status> with something in it.
> > 
> > If you do Get Member Info from AIM, each screenname of yours
> > will show what's in your <status> tag as the away message, and
> > also for the Personal Profile (that's kinda annoying).
> > 
> > Now let's try a few things (I'll only be using netlab.cz for
> > examples):
> > 
> > If I do:
> > <presence to="aim.netlab.cz"/>
> > It doesn't really change anything (still away), but the
> > Personal
> > Profile is now "No Information Provided"
> > 
> > If instead I do:
> > <presence to="aim.netlab.cz"><show> </show></presence> 
> > (somthing between show tags. status tag is optional--if you do
> > use a status tag, it must be empty)
> > everything looks ok. I'm "Online" again.
> > 
> > Basically all you need is a to send presence to the aim-t that
> > has just a non-empty <show> tag inside of it, and you'll be
> > back
> > "Online."
> 
> I just remembered something... One more thing _should_ be sent
> afterwards:
> 
> <presence to="aim.netlab.cz"><show/></presence>
> 
> Otherwise, you'll often get a "(Sent AutoReply)" tagged at the
> end of everything that you receive from your AIM buddies even
> though you aren't really sending an AutoReply.
> 
> I was going to include that in the previous email, but I
> couldn't remember exactly why I've always sent it.
> 
> Anybody know if this stuff still holds true for the cvs version?
> I've really only experimented with charente, earth.li and
> netlab.
> 
> 
> > 
> > As for not getting status info after logging out and back into
> > aim-t, try just sending:
> > 
> > <presence/> 
> > 
> > (or something similar) should refresh that roster
> > 
> > Hope this helps any AIM users that are sick of logging out and
> > back in to get away from away :)
> > 
> > -DrewCapu
> 
> 
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