On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:40:36 -0500, Daniel Atallah <[email protected]> was claimed to have wrote:
>2009/1/27 ?????? ???????? <[email protected]>: >> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >> >> However about 2 hours ago I find a way for check a status definition >> "blocked/offline". >> Unfortunately, not by means of Pidgin. >> At once I will make a say that is tested only for Google IM. >> Whether it will work for other services IM (ICQ, AIM), I do not know. >> So... >> PSI, one of numerous clients IM (and one of the best like a Pidgin), allows >> to make it. >> If the investigated user is really offline, at attempt to refresh it vCard >> simply will occur nothing. >> However if this user has blocked you, at attempt to refresh vCard there will >> be a message >> " >> It is impossible to receive the information on this contact. >> The reason: Service unavailable. >> The server or recipient does not currently provide the requested service >> " > >If this is true (and I don't necessarily think it is), then it is a >bug in the gtalk server. It should not be possible to distinguish the >two scenarios. There are a couple tricks that might work, but none are moderately reliable. "Offline messaging" vs "Off the record" combine together to yield one possible bug. If the recipient is truly off-line, you get an error that the message can't be delivered or off-the-record mode can't be used or something, but if the recipient is online but invisible, it doesn't return the same error. I vaguely recall that the same trick worked for blocked vs off-line, but this isn't a particular subtle method as the recipient gets messages about off the record mode. Alternatively any site claiming to do such a test could be a phishing scam, there were a couple sites phishing for MSN credentials once upon a time, they'd claim they needed your username and password to check your contacts to see if you were blocked or not. I stand by my initial answer, if you want to know, act like an adult and ask the person. _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
