[OTR-dev] libotr default query message

[Martin Milata]

Hi!

When requesting start of OTR session by passing "?OTR?" to
otrl_message_sending, libotr substitutes this message by a hardcoded
string [1]. This string is problematic because it contains newline
characters which are used to separate individual commands in the IRC
protocol. What is after the newline is not a valid command which makes
the IRC server respond with an error. The string also contains HTML tags
which are not interpreted by most IRC clients.

I'm using an ugly workaround to replace this string whenever it's
returned by otrl_message_sending. It appears that irssi-otr tries to
avoid this by directly sending ?OTRv23? without passing it to libotr.

Would it be possible to fix this, preferably without breaking current
API?

Cheers,
Martin

[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/otr/libotr/ci/f0f8a26dda75e5b97eddbc69f3ccb33e107d808b/tree/src/proto.c#l230