Re: [mh] How do I know the status of an IM session?

[Neil C. <nc...@co...>]

Matthew Williams wrote:
> Neil Cherry wrote:
> 
>>> Neil, I think that you may have missed a central point of my post. 
>>> With the
>>> changes that I will shortly send out, mh will let you know when it
>>> loses an
>>> OSCAR (AIM/ICQ) connection.
>> What you are working on is different than what I need. MH didn't
>> disconnect when it was log'd out. It never jumped to that code. I
>> wish it had as that would have made it much easier to resolve the
>> problem. MH thought it was still log'd in. I tested that with the
>> "send a AOL test message" command from telnet. It was sent and the
>> log showed no errors.
>>
> 
> Neil,
> 
> The OSCAR code didn't ever check whether a message was successfully sent,
> nor did it check the status of the connection at any time.  The changes I
> have made fix this issue.  Here is how it works:
> 
> - every second, the socket is checked through the standard Net::OSCAR
> functionality
> - if an error condition is detected on the socket, Net::OSCAR calls a
> callback routine that then runs the hook routines.

Oh, my apologies, I completely misunderstood what you were saying. If
you have the OSCAR code checking that's perfect then I can use that
to determine that the connection is gone.

> I can't guarantee that this will fix your problem, but I can't envision a
> circumstance where the OSCAR connection dies but doesn't take down the
> socket.  We'll have to see, though.

Yes I agree but that was the hacking I was referring to. I'd guess
that the OSCAR code has the socket private. A public interface to
the socket would be great. Maybe something like isUp() or isLoggedIn()
(quick patent that before M$ does ;-).

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