On Mon Apr 20 12:43:02 2009, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
Wouldn't make it more sense to only get the PEP events of users who
are online and get the last event of a user as soon as he signs
in? IMO, this would make more sense and this is also how ejabberd
handles it.
Well, no, not really.
Lots of "rich presence" states persist even when the user is offline.
The <status/> field, for instance, we can even set *when* we go
offline, and lots of clients (include Gajim) can make use of this. If
I go offline so I can, for example, play games, or because I've gone
on holiday, I think that my contacts should get the backdated PEP
event telling them so when I'm offline.
And plenty of PEP items unrelated to online/offline state exist, too,
so to limit PEP to only cases when the contacts are online is simply
broken.
So again, I'd say:
1) The spec says that you get PEP events for ALL contacts, online or
not.
2) The spec doesn't say you get events for newly online contacts.
3) Some client mistakenly rely on odd server behaviour, particular in
the case of (2).
4) (1) and (2) are not only what the specification says, but also the
desired behaviour.
Dave.
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