[OTR-dev] 'manual' + whitespace start ake?

Scott Ellis mail at scottellis.com.au
Tue Feb 21 19:59:25 EST 2006


seems to work find with the flags in the source fixed

On 22/02/06, Scott Ellis <mail at scottellis.com.au> wrote:
>
> Thanks Evan...but I tried it, and get a 'duplicate case' error in one of
> my switch statements...
>
> It turns out to be because 'send whitespace tag' and 'whitespace start
> ake' are both defined to be 0x08 - so they're actually both the same thing.
> This means, if I define manual the way you suggest, it is exactly the same
> as opportunistic - which is not what I want.
>
> So I guess the behaviour I'm after is not possible with the current
> source.
>
>
>  On 22/02/06, Evan Schoenberg <evan.s at dreskin.net> wrote:
> >
> > Scott,
> >
> > You've come to the exact same conclusion I did with the same rationale.
> > Adium's "manual" mode is actually defined as:
> > /* OTRL_POLICY_MANUAL doesn't let us respond to other users' automatic
> > attempts at encryption.
> >  * If either user has OTR set to Automatic, an OTR session should be
> > begun; without this modified
> >  * mask, both users would have to be on automatic for OTR to begin
> > automatically, even though one user
> >  * _manually_ attempting OTR will _automatically_ bring the other into
> > OTR even if the setting is Manual.
> >  */
> > #define OTRL_POLICY_MANUAL_AND_REPOND_TO_WHITESPACE ( OTRL_POLICY_MANUAL
> > | \
> >   OTRL_POLICY_WHITESPACE_START_AKE | \
> >   OTRL_POLICY_ERROR_START_AKE )
> >
> >
> > -Evan
> > www.adiumx.com
> >
> >  On Feb 21, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Scott Ellis wrote:
> >
> >  i'm wondering, what would be the effect of adding the
> > WHITESPACE_START_AKE flag into the MANUAL mode?
> >
> > i mean - in my testing it seems that opportunistic mode only starts OTR
> > when both sides have it set - if one side is set to manual, then automatic
> > initialisation of OTR does not occur.
> >
> > if both sides are in manual, user 1 can 'force' user 2 to start
> > OTR...so, if a user chooses 'opportunistic', wouldn't it make sense to force
> > users they talk to who are in manual mode to start OTR also? would adding
> > that flag have that effect?
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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