Remko Troncon wrote:
- If you really want to support Google Talk, you can get away with a
regexp match on the JID, and enable all these non-standard extensions.
No other server is using these anyway. As long as GT doesn't change the
allowable email addresses, you're safe.
I wonder how long this will last now that you can get "GMail for your
domain". It's only a matter of time until they start "GTalk for your
domain". :-)
- Since blocking is a task not often done, you can do it failure-driven:
try blocking using iq:privacy (which is rather complicated right now,
see below) if you think the server supports it, and then try this way if
it fails. Pretty ugly still, but there is no way to cleanly support
non-standard things on a server that does not advertise its extensions.
This said, apart from GT not advertizing its extension in disco, i don't
blame them for not supporting iq:privacy. It's very hard to use this
protocol directly client-side for tasks as blocking or invisibility. A
simple profile of this protocol should be made that blocks, unblocks and
makes you invisible with one simple iq. I heard stpeter has this
somewhere on his TODO.
Privacy lists are a pain to set up, but once they're set up, toggling
invisibility on and off is a fairly simple operation. I'm not really
defending them though. ;-)
TX
