On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 09:31, Isaac Witmer <isaa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Regarding the second issue, XMPP is a protocol: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP > This may also be useful: > http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Protocol%20Specific%20Questions#XMPPJabberProtocol > > The point is, if you're communicating to your friends OVER XMPP, then > disabling XMPP will disable communication. > > Perhaps you're talking about: > http://library.gnome.org/users/empathy/stable/salut-protocol.html.en > This feature is prevalant in Empathy IM: http://live.gnome.org/Empathy > > But as I know, pidgin doesn't handle this out of the box.
I don't think this is what he's referring to - with something like Link-Local XMPP, by nature of the protocol, you're exposing information about yourself to everyone on your network. Pidgin has had support for that via the "Bonjour" protocol for a long time. -D _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
