[OTR-users] QQ is blocking OTR

Eliah Kagan degeneracypressure at gmail.com
Mon Oct 20 21:13:54 EDT 2008


On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
>> I am the user who initially contacted Ananda to confirm her findings.
>
> I am actually male!  I refer you to my namesake and Ravi Shankar's
> nephew, a sadly deceased but amazing sitar player:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_Shankar

I apologize for my error!

> A quick and dirty test by me has determined that QQ or at least
> libpurple's implementation of it has a maximum message size of 500
> Latin / English characters.  The test was done by composing messages
> with the string Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz with no spaces repeated.

Excellent. It appears that OTR messages tend to be longer than this.

> Good to hear but I would recommend removing the official QQ client ASAP
> as per my previous warnings about it.

We used virtual machines in VMware Workstation and VMware fusion, and
created snapshots of the VMs before installing QQ. Once there appears
to be no forthcoming need for further testing, we'll either revert or
trash the VMs.

-Eliah



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