[OTR-dev] Secure connections through a connect/disconnect cycle, OTR error messages

[Ian Goldberg]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:00:20PM -0600, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
> >As I mentioned earlier, I really don't think the client should *ever*
> >drop the private connection because of a network event.  It's OK if
> >the user gets informed that the person he was talking to dropped his
> >connection (so long as that message goes over the private channel
> >before it's dropped), but the user should then turn off his side
> >manually.
> 
> I think that's perfect.  No automatic dropping of the connection, and
> automatic secure notification of the changed state.

But I still think the client should send that message, not libotr.  You
*don't* want the library to have to guess whether people you've got a
context with are actually still online, since having the library send a
message to an offline person causes no end of trouble.

   - Ian