XSF Discussion - 2019-12-22


  1. Link Mauve

    “17:41:44 Zash> I can't remember seeing an actual password-protected MUC”, I once was on an IRC channel that was password-protected, biboumi handled that transparently for me.

  2. Zash

    Once upon a dream?

  3. jonas’

    I know people who use biboumi with password-protected IRC channels right now

  4. edhelas

    So it's a thing

  5. MattJ

    I think trying to remove it from the protocol this way is a bad idea

  6. MattJ

    Remove it from the UI, sure

  7. Zash

    Who's removing it from the protocol?

  8. MattJ

    Bookmarks 2

  9. MattJ

    Is purposely pretending passwords don't exist

  10. Zash

    Would it be okay for it to be an extension?

  11. MattJ

    That was proposed on the list

  12. MattJ

    And it became a discussion about whether clients should be expected to preserve extensions they don't understand when modifying items

  13. Zash

    Yeah, that's the part that I found

  14. Ge0rG

    Which doesn't work with how most xml parsers work

  15. flow

    Preserving extensions you do not know raises just the bar for implementations, and, probably depending on the parser, is not trivial to implement reliable for every corner case

  16. flow

    e.g. the XmlPullParser in Smack has an XML_ROUND_TRIP feature which makes it easy, but it is not available everywhere

  17. Ge0rG

    There are complaints in my adb log about a feature missing in XmlPullParser...