On 30 June 2010 16:16, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/30/10 12:48 AM, Matthew Wild wrote: >> On 30 June 2010 06:13, Paul Aurich <[email protected]> wrote: >>> While discussing XEP-0186 (Invisible Command) in >>> [email protected], I noticed that the specification doesn't >>> actually mention whether or not a server is supposed to generate any >>> sort of presence probes. >>> >>> Waqas suggested that based on historical discussions, most people think >>> the server shouldn't (I disagree, but anyway.) Regardless of which side >>> of that people are on, I think the specification should, at the very >>> least, bring up the topic. >>> >> >> I wasn't around for the discussion (I was sleeping for once) but my >> plan for a while has been to add a new attribute to signal this. >> Setting probe='true' would ask the server to send probes (and thus >> risk revealing your connected state) or probe='false' to not do this, >> but understand you may not receive presence from your contacts. > > When in doubt, introduce an option? ;-) >
As a wise developer once said: "You can please some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, or you can introduce an option." Matthew
