Jiří Zárevúcky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Several people lack the understanding of the problem Jonathan was > trying to solve. > > The original problem is that when you connect, you see everyone > offline. Even if they are online, you may have to wait several minutes > to see it under some circumstances. > > If you connect just to quicky check someone's availability, you have a > problem, because you can't be entirely sure of him *not* being > available unless you actually open an XML console of your client and > send a probe yourself (and that only for some implementations anyway). > Delay only solves the problem of distinguishing delayed and live > presences. > > The way it works now can be lived with, but I've stumbled several > times over this particular problem (as a user) and even though it > doesn't affect me often, it's very annoying when it does. Thanks for explaining what I meant :). I guess I was a bit unclear, but what you explained is exactly what I meant. Oh, btw, presence probe doesn't help - you're not guaranteed to get unavailable back. So if you get no reply in some amount of time, it could be that the s2s link is still being established or the user is offline - you still don't know for sure. -- Jonathan
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