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

[Evan Schoenberg]

The flags problem _should_ be fixed in HEAD -- I emailed with Ian  
about it previously.

-Evan

On Feb 21, 2006, at 7:59 PM, Scott Ellis wrote:

> 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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