[old thread warning!] On 9/18/10 8:08 PM, Waqas Hussain wrote: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Evgeniy Khramtsov <xramt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> We've got a feature request to make it possible to set and get vcards of >> multi-user conference. There is no problem with retrieving vcard, but >> setting it requires a trick: an owner of a conference can send vcard-temp >> request to the conference: >> >> <iq id='v2' type='set' from='owner_of_c...@jabber.org' >> to='c...@conference.jabber.org'> >> <here-goes-vcard/> >> </iq> >> > > +1, this is the standard vCard protocol. The fact that the target is a > MUC is just a detail. The target could be a host (jabber.org or > conference.jabber.org) itself, or pretty much any JID. It should work > as long as the sender has the privileges (is a server admin, room > owner, etc). > > I would like the vCard XEP (section 3.2: Updating One's vCard) to > explicitly allow authorized entities to update vCards of other > entities. > >> A conference MUST check if the sender is really owner and set the vcard ;) >> If the vcard contains PHOTO element, sha1 SHOULD be calculated and SHOULD be >> provided in every presence sent from bare JID of the conference. Well, >> something like that ;) >> > > Sure. When would the presence from bare JID be sent though? I think it > should be in response to a probe. It may make sense to not include the > MUC child element in that presence stanza. This works if the user > e.g., adds the room in their roster, but not otherwise. > >> What do you think of it? Is it possible to describe such behaviour in >> XEP-0045? Or do you know easier and more correct way to set vcard for a >> conference? >> > > I'm not sure if this needs to be in XEP-0045 explicitly. It's simply > the logical connection between two basic XMPP building blocks (MUC and > vCards), so it should implicitly be assumed to work.
I think it would be good to have an example of this in the new vcard spec (XEP-0292). However, in the IETF's VCARDDAV WG I argued for KIND:thing and didn't succeed, so we might want to define a vcard4 extension for that. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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