[Gaim-devel] [james@delx.cjb.net: Gaim Jabber support]

[Nathan W. <fac...@fa...>]

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From: James Bunton <ja...@de...>
Subject: Gaim Jabber support
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 22:47:27 +1100
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Hi.

Just a quick suggestion you might want to implement in Gaim in order to 
try and push Jabber adoption a little...

I'm the developer of PyMSNt, the MSN transport for Jabber, and I have 
written the transport so that every time a switchboard session is 
started, a x-clientcaps message is sent with the field
JabberID: someuser@host

If PyMSNt ever picks up one of these messages it notifies the user that 
the person they're talking to has a Jabber account, and perhaps they 
should chat there.

Hopefully that would be an easy addition to Gaim that would at least 
stop Jabber users from being unaware that they both have Jabber :)
It's only an annoyance once per session, and only if both people have 
Jabber accounts.

Gaim could listen for this message with the MSN protocol, and if the 
user has a Jabber account prompt them to add their contact's Jabber 
account and continue talking there.
For every MSN switchboard session that's started when the user has an 
active Jabber account the message could be sent.

Here's what PyMSNt sends (and listens for)

Content-Type: text/x-clientcaps
Client-Name: PyMSNt
JabberID: som...@ja...

The Client-Name field is ignored upon receipt, but it might be useful 
some time.
Other fields could be their, but PyMSNt will ignore them. If it sees 
JabberID it will prompt the user.

What do you think? If you need any further info please let me know.

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James

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