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

[Andrew J. Capule]

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."

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


--- Julian Missig <julian at jabber.org> wrote:
> admin at jabber.fsinf.de wrote:
>  > On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Julian Missig wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >> Someone needs to make aim-t not crash constantly and I'll
> be ok
>  >> since I run my own server ;)
>  >
>  >
>  > AIM-t is running for some weeks here now without a single
> crash.
>  > Just a few users and ICQ only though.
>  >
>  > Take a look at AIM-t's current README (linked to on AIM-t's
>  > homepage, http://aim-transport.jabberstudio.org) for
> instructions on
>  > how to help debugging. Just saying "it crashes" isn't
> enough, sorry
>  > ;-).
>  >
>  > Regards
> 
> 
> I am not at all interested in using AIM-t for ICQ. ICQv7 works
> great.
> I'm well aware of how to setup aim-t, ask temas :)
> 
> Problems with aim-t:
> Sends presence out to aim way too much, breaking message send
> limit,
> causing aim-t to send out 30+ errors to the user.
> Seems to crash if the user is disconnected or somehow
> unexpectedly
> disconnects.
> Crashes on certain kinds of aim messages from particular users
> (very
> repeatible for me... I'm guessing something in the pseudoHTML
> transformations?)
> Crashes if presence changes a tad too frequently.
> 
> Quoting a dman, a gabber user:
>  > The first problem is if I am set to "away" due to being
> idle, on AIM I
>  > am listed as away forever (until I logout and log in
> again).
>  >
>  > The second problem is if I log off the AIM agent and log
> back in, I
>  > get no status information regarding any contact.
>  >
>  > If I completely log off the jabber server and re-login then
> everything
>  > returns to normal.
> 
> I experience those same problems.
> 
> 
> Julian
> -- 
> email: julian at jabber.org
> jabber:julian at jabber.org
> 
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