-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/6/13 12:04 PM, Nathan of Guardian wrote: > On 09/06/2013 01:17 PM, Ian Goldberg wrote: >> Does the transfer happen "in the background", so that you can >> continue chatting, or does it lock up your chat until the file >> transfer is completed? > > It happens in the background, both in terms of being interleaved in > the XMPP/OTR message flow, and in the Android process itself, using > a service and notifications to show progress. > > In short, you can keep chatting while the file is being > transfered. > >> Do you have a carefully documented spec for the TLV type, >> contents, and semantics? > > In progress. This progressed rapidly from a "will it work" > prototype, to "holy crap it worked" state. The most interesting > aspect of it is that we are essentially using an HTTP/URI-based > model of GET with ranges, hashes, mime-types, etc.
That sounds an awful lot like the 10-year-old file transfer method in XMPP: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0096.html Of course, I understand that OTR works with any IM protocol... Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSKiPPAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pUlUP/i6xfStclotI//Ub1VjnikVs vLne122wTLWn9tsJtg82Eg6wo8slbf+XW1KuqNFwL2UHuEtqGrtTsTlRFFcm1vYL z7mMXItHT26Svox6eOYDRixCVQRwTl9BH7cyvo0PGDEeYp1y38GqAFTZ4Nw0ITQn XZGykzOlYAKBHtSYbQxPvsKbop6Ni3DKHyzTaopoUKK8ZT1VwPfDuaoRRKDSdcUL JNICuiKAjljcamOQSHnIrYsk23h4at2C67mvCSXRlNAvUd6hC65kNTv91swfgI2z jUgJMoUfyQs3fIDDtFf4AKl7cNFA7La66Jtd8cYmVMAkW2RG2qTaIlTTQVT9VLHQ 9dQLPlxWZjZ6rcNLSjmDlK/KACLkw8ZUEY90huW6Crt6k7vhxAYUYCrJ5g0FoyUJ zx84V1ObhCsYtI/ZGaQ37hNV81PMOlODI/vTX1oC73kBAhSyi8G8wvhAwPezcTDm ZynWSCY6QL2ok0MJ+E/2WWwPASP08LiQNmXnaZGQbgvHW27VawIQa6yvjcsOI4M3 1vIvcogn2yWKrWb1koBreqP+KlSRvgsr7Cptkt5SEmubUTxVRXZ/kQ2BtunAln1A q6gT24zgE9pFmn6AcY8LTpJfRi1yeoaVdBo5JVKjAHOJFGklxsX5S4VkXVqaveiu zLUZX5V85VxSz+c7c9Dm =xODi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ OTR-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev
