-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7/16/09 8:02 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: > On Thu Jul 16 10:57:51 2009, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: > >> 2.) You know when you got all presences and then definitely know if >> somebody is online without waiting 10 minutes just in case you >> didn't get the initial presence yet. >> >> > Responding to probes with an offline presence (as well as delay-stamping > probe responses) solves this. > > Both these techniques would benefit from mentioning in the bis drafts > and/or a best-practise XEP.
This is already encouraged in 3921bis: if the contact has no available resources, then the server SHOULD reply to the presence probe by sending to the user the full XML of the last presence stanza of type "unavailable" received by the server from the contact (however, the server MAY opt to not reply at all). Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpfPmEACgkQNL8k5A2w/vz+0ACePqfLATZQu/R6WnqMSwzh4XFx EckAoIpV6T/oMYVidtnwEzD5pDcR8msg =qF7z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
