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

Andrew J. Capule drewcapu at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 30 18:12:35 CST 2002


--- "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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