[OTR-dev] irssi-otr 0.1 released

[Ian Goldberg]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:25:30PM +0000, Uli M wrote:
> IIRC bitlbee splits IRC messages longer than 512 bytes (note that an IRC
> message also contains other stuff like nick and server, so the actually
> payload should be less than that). I can be very thankful for that
> because irssi-otr wouldn't exist if bitlbee would cut the messages off
> (which I'm sure some IRC servers do). By splitting I mean making two
> messages out of it, so for example
> 
> :nick!nick at irc.server.net PRIVMSG ulim : FOO.........BAR.......
> 
> becomes
> 
> :nick!nick at irc.server.net PRIVMSG ulim : FOO.........
> :nick!nick at irc.server.net PRIVMSG ulim : BAR.......
> 
> How does irssi-otr detect and reassemble this:

Ah, I see.  So there's no actual framing, saying "this is fragment 1/3"
or anything like that.  I guess what you're doing is about all you can
do, in that event.

   - Ian