[jdev] Bad roster pushes from Facebook XMPP

[Emil Ivov]

Hey Alex, Magnus,

Indeed the problem was already reported there. It seems that it does not
occur with beta.chat.facebook.com which is going to be put in production in
about a week or so.

Emil

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On 21 Aug 2013 08:59, "Alexander Gnauck" <gnauck at ag-software.de> wrote:

> Hello Magnus,
>
> you can reach the Facebook chat developers in this Facebook group:
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/315869928431057/
>
> Other people reported similar problems there.
>
> Alex
>
> --
> Alexander Gnauck
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> xmpp:gnauck at jabber.org
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Magnus Henoch <magnus.henoch at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm experiencing weird behaviour from Facebook's XMPP service.  It
>> sometimes sends a bunch of roster pushes where the contact's name is
>> empty.  This makes my roster display next to unusable, as Facebook JIDs
>> are all numeric.  After a minute or so, it _sometimes_ sends a bunch of
>> roster pushes containing the correct name for each contact, but more
>> often than not my roster is in an all-numeric state.
>>
>> I could of course just modify my client to ignore such roster pushes,
>> but for my client, the processing of these roster pushes takes a
>> non-negligible amount of time, during which the UI is blocked.
>>
>> I first experienced this about a month ago, and soon after that other
>> users reported the same problem on the jabber.el mailing list.
>>
>> So my questions:
>>
>> 1. Is this a widespread problem?  It happens to me and some other
>>    jabber.el users, and I was able to reproduce the problem with Psi.
>>    On the other hand, I searched for other reports of this problem but
>>    couldn't find any.
>>
>> 2. Is there a way to make Facebook stop doing this?  Does anyone have
>>    contacts at Facebook who could be persuaded to look into this
>>    problem?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Magnus
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