[guardian-dev] Gibberbot and XMPP resource

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at guardianproject.info
Tue Jun 4 13:44:39 EDT 2013


multi-party OTR, which is in development as part of cryptocat and other
efforts, will make it possible to have your multiple devices in the same chat.

.hc

On 06/04/2013 08:17 AM, Tom Ritter wrote:
> Ah!  I wondered what magic Google was doing to make GTalk messages
> appear on all devices.  I thought it was all-google magic, but I bet
> they're using this to a certain degree also.
> 
> One of my gripes with OTR is that moving a chat between devices is impossible.
> 
> It would be absolutely killer if a long-term goal of OTR/OTR Clients
> was adding in the same functionality that Gtalk has in this regard.
> 
> If I have an OTR chat with a contact, and switch to another device,
> whose resource priority exceeds the current device, I send a OTR Type
> W message to the recipient, who then does a multi-party key exchange
> between my new device, him, and my old device if it is still
> answering, and after it's done, (optionally*)sends the back log of
> messages to the new device, and we continue the chat.
> 
> * Maybe he only does it if my new key has been marked as verified?
> 
> Anyway, sorry to interject, if people want to keep discussing this, I
> say we move to another thread and brainstorm.
> 
> -tom
> 
> On 3 June 2013 18:28,  <c1.devrandom at niftybox.net> wrote:
>> It would be useful to look at the logs of what's actually sent by the
>> server - it could be a server-side issue.
>>
>> Check the bottom of the README to see how to turn on logging:
>>
>> https://github.com/guardianproject/Gibberbot
>>
>> and the following line is where incoming packets are logged:
>>
>> https://github.com/guardianproject/Gibberbot/blob/master/src/info/guardianproject/otr/app/im/plugin/xmpp/XmppConnection.java#L676
>>
>> On 06/03/2013 02:12 PM, Matej Kovacic wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was reading about XMPP resources. The idea is, that you can use the
>>> same XMPP account on several devices. For instance, I want to use the
>>> same account on my computer (Pidgin) and on a phone (Gibberbot).
>>>
>>> When I am at the computer, messages would go to a computer, but when
>>> computer is off, or I am away (away status in Pidgin), messages would go
>>> to my phone.
>>>
>>> It seems Pidgin has pre-set XMPP priorities and user cannot change that:
>>>
>>> https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Protocol%20Specific%20Questions#HowcanIconfigureresourcepriority
>>>
>>> But in Gibberbot you can change priority. Default is 20.
>>>
>>> I tried to sent a message from phone A to my account, active on a PC and
>>> phone B. When PC was active, message went to a PC. But when I closed
>>> down Pidgin on a PC, message was not sent to phone B. It was sent, but
>>> got lost.
>>>
>>> When I try to sent message from phone B to phone A and then back, it was
>>> sent successfully (account on a PC was disabled).
>>>
>>> Any hint what I am doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Matej
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