On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 22:55 +1000, Rick Measham wrote: > I'm trying to sort out how to get a bot to deal with subscriptions and > the RFC is just confusing me -- it switches between what a server should > do and what a client should do too often! > > The docs here: > http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/Programming_Jabber_Clients :are really > good .. but they don't talk about subscriptions at all. > > Can someone help me work this out? > [..]
In short this should work (works for the Jaiku IM bot, where many users are using Google Talk): - Connect and authenticate as a client - Request the roster (so you will receive presence and subscription updates. - Respond to incoming <presence type='subscribe'/> with <presence type='subscribed'/> - Return the favour by sending <presence type='subscribe'/>, too. -- Groetjes, ralphm
