[jdev] Re: [SPAM?] Re: Re: type='available' in <presence/> stanza

[Remko Troncon]

> is due to the logic being that if it isn't blank or unavailable, then it is 
> subscription related), which is quite confusing.

Indeed, this was fixed only recently. The fact that Psi generated system
messages might have caused some frustration amongst users, blaming the
faulty spec implementation ;-)

> It seems like the only decent solutions are:
>  1) ignore packets with an unexpected type
>  2) interpret type='available' as having no type
> #1 is not tolerant, #2 is not general.  I'm afraid there's no good answer 
> here.

True, but that's the downside of piggybacking actions with different 
semantics on the same element (<presence/>). Anyway, i guess either one
is fine if you're dealing with contacts with bad clients, as long as you
don't annoy the poor user with bad friends too much by sending empty
messages all the time :-) And i think #1 is marginally better than #2.

cheers,
Remko