On 29 May 2012 18:03, Matthew Miller <linuxw...@outer-planes.net> wrote: > > On May 29, 2012, at 10:53, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > >> On 5/29/12 10:36 AM, Matthew Wild wrote: >>> On 29 May 2012 17:12, Philipp Hancke <fi...@goodadvice.pages.de> wrote: >>>>> XEP-0186 move to Draft so that we can deprecate XEP-0018 and XEP-0126. >>>>> >>>>> Thoughts? >>>> >>>> >>>> I'd note that in 3.1.1. the server MUST NOT send presence probes when being >>>> the client is in invisible mode. Of course that makes invisibility much >>>> less >>>> useful ;-) >> >> Perhaps that is my diabolical plan! ;-) >> >>> I've mentioned before here that this is one of the few changes I would >>> like to make to the XEP - add an attribute such as probe='true' to >>> allow the client to ask the server to probe contacts (with the >>> consequence of not necessarily being so "invisible" any more). >> >> That slightly complicates this ultra-simple extension. Since the 'probe' >> attribute would default to FALSE, I'd be fine with adding this feature >> (as long as people understand the implications). >> > > RFC 6121 specifies probes be sent 'from' a bare JID 'to' a bare JID. I think > this limits the presence leak severely, but that's my interpretation (-:
It's only a matter of time before someone in the Prosody community writes a module that fakes available presence for users it receives a probe from :) Regards, Matthew PS. and it'll only be a short time after that that a module is written to automatically send probes randomly while the user is offline...
