Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: [Gaim-Plugins] How to access the underlying im-protocol (jabber specific)?

[Christian N. <ch....@fh...>]

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Evan Schoenberg wrote:
> Christian,
> 
> Quoting Christian Nolte <ch....@fh...>:
> 
>>> So my question is essentially this: Is there a way for a plugin to
>>> access the underlying protocol to get everything sent to/from Gaim? Or
>>> is this a matter of hacking the jabber-protocol somehow, to support
>>> encryption?
> 
> The protocol code (the "prpl") is responsible for determining what is
> sent over the wire as well as how it is sent.  The gaim signals for
> receiving/sending ims allow you to modify what will be passed to the
> prpl -- effectively "changing" what the user typed or the remote contact
> sent.  What you're wanting to do (process the message differently,
> changing what xmpp tags are sent and so on) will need to be done at
> least in part at the prpl level; my best guess is that Gaim itself will
> need to be enhanced to know about encryption, in some protocol-agnostic
> way, and make that information ("is this conversation supposed to be
> encrypted?") available to appropriate prpls if they request it, rather
> than a much-simpler signal-based plugin.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Evan


Thanks for your reply Evan! I have feared that it would be necessary to
change some Gaim internals.

Do you know if there are ongoing efforts to add encryption support to
Gaim in a way you've described? And: is there some documentation of
how to use the prpl-API, or some sample implementation I could use to
learn from?

The missing encryption of messages sent via Gaim is a
feature I am missing most in Gaim, as neither gaim-e (seems to be dead)
nor gaim-encryption (no GPG, and "non-standard" protocol) is usable with
either the latest Gaim version or with other IM-clients.

Cheers,
Christian

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