[OTR-users] OTR file transfers (again)

[Mansour Moufid]

Hello list,

I remember this topic being discussed previously but I've lost the
thread. I wanted to share a simple idea:

To send a file, encode it into plain text (e.g. base64) and send it
over OTR as one big instant message. Then the OTR plugin on the other
end could perhaps recognize some sort of marker (e.g. "THISISAFILE:"),
and rather than display the data, save it somewhere.

Seems this is how email attachments work, and OTR already handles
lengthy messages, if I understand correctly. Just a thought.

-- 
Mansour Moufid