[OTR-users] Bug with long messages being silently dropped

Tigz Q Mordan Tigz at hotmail.co.uk
Sat Nov 24 14:26:30 EST 2012


On 03/11/2012 12:57, Tigz Q Mordan wrote:
> On 01/11/2012 18:54, Ian Goldberg wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 04:46:22PM +0000, Tigz Q Mordan wrote:
>>> On 30/10/2012 17:03, Chris Ballinger wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Tigz Q Mordan <Tigz at hotmail.co.uk
>>>> <mailto:Tigz at hotmail.co.uk>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     When I try to send a message over a certain length (basically one
>>>>     and a half lines on my screen), the message is silently discarded.
>>>>     Not sent, no message warning me it was too long, nothing. This
>>>>     happens with all my accounts and people sending messages to me
>>>>     also notice this issue as well. It is of course kind of hard to
>>>>     hold a conversation when you have no idea if the other party's
>>>>     seen all your messages. Is there any way to automatically split
>>>>     them into multiple messages - or at the very least notify that the
>>>>     message wasn't sent, please?
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>>>> What protocol are you using? It should automatically split long
>>>> messages unless you are using XMPP.
>>> (top-posting fixed)
>>>
>>> Yahoo, MSN and AIM. It's not splitting for me, nor is it splitting
>>> for any of my contacts. I'm happy to help debug if it'd be useful!
>> AIM is our primary test network, so this is very weird.  Are you both
>> using pidgin-otr 3.1?  4.0?
>>
> It occurs on both versions. Started on 3.1, I upgraded to 4.0, then 
> the other party upgraded to 4.0. In all three cases, the bug has 
> continued to occur. I'll happily run a test version but Wireshark 
> doesn't work on my configuration.
>
> I'll gladly be the second party though; I created tqm_testing on Yahoo 
> Messenger for the purpose of testing and am happy to test with 
> whoever. It's configured so that OTR is required to message me and is 
> running Off-the-Record Messaging 4.0.0.
>
> Tigz
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Has anybody been able to look into this yet? Haven't had any requests to 
test anything yet; is anyone in a position to give a quick progress 
report please? :)

Tigz



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