On Tuesday 17 July 2007 07:51, you wrote: > On Jul 16, 2007, at 10:19 PM, Charles Connell wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > You may have noticed that I've been doing a lot a hacking with the > > Cryptography plugin. Encrypted messages can be very large (for an > > instant > > message). In my testing, I've noticed that when trunk Kopete sends > > a message > > of more than 25 lines over OSCAR/AIM, it immediately loses > > connection to the > > server, signs off, and later signs back on again. I have heard the ICQ > > variant of OSCAR has the same issue. As for other protocols, I'm > > not sure. > > For ICQ, it's supposedly 436 characters max. For AIM, it's something > semi-ridiculous for normal messages at like 8000 bytes (not > characters, bytes, which means 4000 chars or less for multi-byte > character sets, like UTF-8) > > > I write because Kopete 0.12.3 allows messages of more than 25 > > lines, and > > Kopete trunk can recieve messages of more than 25 lines (all in > > OSCAR/AIM). > > If the Cryptography plugin is going to work, then whatever was > > changed in the > > trunk OSCAR implementation about sending long messages needs to be > > changed > > back. > > Long messages are split to avoid disconnect problems, or at least, > that's how it's supposed to work. No telling if there's a bug there > or not. > > > Sorry to bother you all with a question I probably could answer > > myself, but > > the diff between 3.5 and trunk is 54 thousand lines, so I'm hoping > > that > > somebody knows better than I do what might have caused this behavioral > > change. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Charles > > No clue, but it doesn't matter. This should be in the FAQ if it's not > already. We will not support cryptography over OSCAR. The protocol > just won't handle it, as you've discovered. Users who wish to use > cryptography to encrypt their messages are encouraged to use Jabber > until we've implemented OSCAR's SecureIM. They may also wish to try > the OTR plugin that's available for KDE 3.5 releases Okay, all of this is fine. I'd like to put a warning in Cryptography about using a protocol that won't work. Is there a good list of which protocols work or don't work with large messages?
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