[jdev] Re: [jadmin] Invisibilty in Jabber

[Peter Saint-Andre]

In article <coidk6$uks$1 at sea.gmane.org>,
 Stephen Marquard <scm at marquard.net> wrote:

> Daniel Henninger wrote:
> > Hi folk, I had sent this to the jadmin list and just realized it's more of
> > a jdev question.
> ...
> > 
> > I'm afraid I'm not understanding how to implement this properly.  First of
> > all, I'm running a Jabberd 2.0s4 server.  Is JEP-0126 implemented as of
> > that version?  Second, looking over the JEP is making me question how it
> > would be used properly.  Take the various transports.  (more precisely,
> > I'm looking to implement invisibility with PyICQ-t)  Unless I'm reading
> > something wrong, it looks to me that the client/user would have to know to
> > grant visibility "rights" to the various transports he or she is
> > subscribed to.  If this is truly the case, it more or less renders
> > invisibility in transports useless.  I doubt it is going to occur to many
> > to grant said access.  Am I simply missing something or is there another
> > way around this for transports?  Thanks!!
> 
> jabberd2 implements privacy lists as defined in XMPP-IM, as well as 
> legacy "invisible presence". JEP-0126 describes how to use privacy lists 
> in XMPP-IM to implement invisibility, so in that sense jabberd2 
> implements it, though most of the work to use privacy lists in a useful 
> way is on the client side.

Yes, this is something that the client needs to be smart about -- 
certainly one would not expect the user to make all those changes 
manually.

Peter