Dave Cridland wrote: > On Wed Nov 12 12:37:45 2008, Remko Tron�on wrote: >> > In XEP-0115 you include a hashed features list into your presence >> packet. This >> > presence packet is the same for all you roster items (in fact, it's >> > your server who broadcasts this packet). >> >> Right, I was talking about using directed presence to these contacts. >> I didn't say it was an easy solution, but that would be the 'protocol' >> solution, albeit a horrible one. >> >> It's much easier to do this type of filtering in the client itself >> (it's just an <attention/> stanza), so I don't see any reason for >> going into any more details. Just mentioning that the client should >> allow a user to disable it is enough; at what granularity or any other >> detail (such as maximum attention send rate and those crazy things) is >> left to the client, and should be left out of protocol specs like >> this. > > If I send you <attention/>, and your client doesn't honour it from me, > should your client tell me?
No. IMHO if you send me a message containing only the <attention/> data and my client doesn't support the extension or is configured to ignore it, then it SHOULD NOT send you any error notification. > Or should it tell me if it did? No. It's fire and forget. If I ignore you, then it's too bad for you. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
