[OTR-dev] OTR message delivery acknowledgement

[Vlad Ion]

Hi Peter,

I experience those issues when using pigin+otr for instant messaging on
yahoo. As far as I know, it is not based on XMPP.
I will try to register on an XMPP based messenger to test it there as well
though it is a pity especially when long messages get lost due to the
connection being lost at either end of the conversation without receiving a
single confirmation message.

Regards,
Vlad

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im>wrote:

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> On 2/24/13 6:14 AM, Vlad Ion wrote:
> > Dear OTR Devs,
> >
> > I am using ORT with Pidgin and I seem to be losing messages
> > whenever the wifi connection is acting up.
> >
> > It would be absolutely amazing if OTR could also do some hash of
> > the message and expect a reply with that hash within 5-10 seconds
> > and a failure to receive that hash would instantly let the sending
> > party know their message was not delivered. This would drastically
> > increase the reliability of these encrypted messages.
> >
> > Is anyone working on a simple delivery acknowledgement method to
> > ensure that messages get to the other end and that any such failure
> > to do so is reported?
>
> IMHO the OTR layer is the wrong place to be building in reliability.
> In XMPP, we depend on TCP but also have built a stream-level
> reliability layer:
>
> http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0198.html
>
> Do you experience these problems on an XMPP system, or on AOL or
> another proprietary IM system like that?
>
> Peter
>
> - --
> Peter Saint-Andre
> https://stpeter.im/
>
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