Damien,

I believe sending contacts out without informing the user is a severe
privacy violation.

Comments, anyone?

Eugene.

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Damien Sandras <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Le dimanche 03 janvier 2010 à 23:23 -0500, Eugene Kanter a écrit :
>
> Debugging some connectivity problems I noticed that upon startup ekiga
> sends SUBSCRIBE requests for every entry in Contacts tab. For example:
>
> Request-Line: SUBSCRIBE sip:[email protected] SIP/2.0
>
> and server replies with
>
> Status-Line: SIP/2.0 489 Event Not Supported
>
> Why would ekiga advertise one's contact list contents?
>
>
> It tries subscribing to various types of events :
> - presence changes
> - call notifications
>
> Not all events are supported by all servers, Ekiga just tries them all.
>
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