Re: [Gaim-devel] pop-up blocking plugin

[Mark D. <ma...@ki...>]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:15:57 -0600, David Everly wrote
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 04:50:55PM -0500, Mark Doliner wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:55:15 -0600, David Everly wrote
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I'm working on a plugin whose purpose is to suppress unwanted spam 
> > > bot IMs.  Somewhat of a simple pop up blocker.
> > > 
> > > The user defines a simple question and an answer.  When an unknown
> > > person (not in the buddy or permit lists) sends an IM, it is saved, but
> > > not displayed and no window pops up.  An IM with the question is 
> > > sent to this unknown person, and future IMs from that person are 
> > > ignored until an IM with the correct answer is sent from that 
> > > person.  When the correct answer is received, another IM is sent to 
> > > that person indicating that the answer was correct, delivery of the 
> > > first message will proceed and there will be no further impediments 
> > > to conversing.  The correct answer is then replaced by the first 
> > > message from the unknown user and the IM is allowed to proceed,
> > >  which opens a conversation and a window for it pops up.
> > > 
> > > This seems to work with all the prpls (yahoo, irc, etc.).
> > > 
> > > My problem is that since there is no conversation (because that would
> > > pop up an IM window) I think I'm forced to use serv_send_im() to
> > > communicate with the unknown user.  This causes problems when using
> > > gaim-otr, because perhaps encryption has engaged, but here is my plugin
> > > sending un-encrypted messages.  It has been suggested to use
> > > gaim_conv_im_send(), but of course this requires a conversation, 
> > > which opens a window--somewhat defeating to the entire purpose of 
> > > the plugin.
> > > 
> > > Is there any nice way to fix this in my plugin, while using existing
> > > gaim-1.3.1?
> > > 
> > > Here is the source, if it would help:
> > > 
> > >
> >
http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/qrc/trunk/bot-challenger/bot-challenger.c?view=markup
> > 
> > Could you create a conversation if one does not exist, and then always use
> > gaim_conv_im_send()?
> 
> Won't that cause an IM window to open?

Good point.  I should have known that was too obvious to work.  I guess
there's probably not an easy way around that.  But you sound smart... maybe
you could find a way around that and provide a patch to Gaim?  Maybe the
"sending-im-msg" signal should be emitted from serv_send_im?  Maybe
serv_send_im should be moved to conversation.c and renamed to
gaim_conv_send_im_for_real (or something), and then the signal should be
emitted from there?  I just throwing out ideas--don't treat these as gospel.

-Mark