WLM Beta buddy icons do not show

[Merkaba]

I recently upgraded to the latest public beta of Windows Live Messenger (Version 2009 Build 14.0.5027.908) and am unable to view buddy icons for libpurple users (Pidgin and Adium specifically). Using Pidgin I am also unable to see the buddy icons of users using the WLM beta. The latest stable version of WLM (8.5.1302.1018) can view libpurple buddy icons and vice versa

[Merkaba]

An extra bit of info that might help is that when using MSN Pecan in Pidgin my buddy icon is then visible to them. Unfortunately my buddy icon is still not visible to users in the beta version of WLM. I'm also experiencing similar issues with random users of WLM 8.5.

This is in Pidgin 2.5.1 in Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1.

[Dimmuxx]

That your buddy picture doesn't show for other WLM users is a known bug in msn-pecan. That you are able to see the pictures of WLM beta users with msn-pecan is interesting though.

[Merkaba]

I seem to be getting better results using MSN Pecan than the default MSNP15 method in Pidgin. Though after an hour or two several of my contacts buddy icons now show in Pidgin. I've added myself as a contact to a separate WLM account and using the beta I see no change in my Pidgin account's avatar when I change it in Pidgin. Should I attach a debug log?

I also see that Adium has the same issue [http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/10411 ] though it seems to be connected to MSN Pecan.http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/issues/detail?id=93 My issue is connected to the MSNP15 protocol that comes as default with Pidgin though. Worryingly enough it is also not just WLM beta users that I'm having trouble with as I mentioned in my previous comment. Any ideas?

[QuLogic]

Please follow the instructions to get a debug log and attach it to this ticket.

[Merkaba]

Debug log

[Merkaba]

Attachment (Buddy icon.log) added by ticket reporter.

[Merkaba]

Debug log added with an MSN account in Pidgin 2.5.2 with one contact using the beta version of WLM. Nether the WLM user or Pidgin user can see each others' avatars.

[Merkaba]

Similar problem reported for users with MSN Pecan protocol plugin.

http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/issues/detail?id=108

[QuLogic]

It looks like P2P stuff may have changed slightly. Perhaps related to #7294. I don't think we debug print enough to be figure this out from just user reports, though.

[tomgr]

I've attached a patch which fixes sending/receiving of buddy icons and receiving of custom emoticons from people using the wlm 9. It seems that the new version sends a flag of 0x1000020 rather than 0x20 for its buddy icon - I expect this indicates that it is animated. Also, when it requests our buddy icon the flag is set to 0x1000000 rather than 0x0 - again perhaps this indicates it can accept animated buddy icons.

In either case, treating the flags as their counterparts fixes everything!

It also seems to fix the file transfer issues of #7294 - I was able to receive a file from someone using wlm 9 fine.

[datallah]

Ticket #8170 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.

[markuznw]

@tomgr Tested the patch with both original msn and msn-pecan and it works fine. Thank you :)

[qulogic@…]

(In [8577210d86a9a6cd448208a4ef92c42cd39200f7]):
A patch from Thomas Gibson-Robinson to fix receiving buddy icons, custom emoticons and file transfers from WLM 9. I have a feeling this should really be a bitwise test (ie, flags | 0x20 == 0x20) but I can't really find many supportive docs for FT things and I'm no expert on these MSN SLP bits.

Fixes #7180. Fixes #7294.

[qulogic@…]

(In [27a5e4c3bf4db89f9d87c37d7043c1f4dc68ed1f]):
Report a debug warning if a SLP MSG is not processed because it has unknown flags. This should make it easier to fix problems like with WLM 9.

References #7180.

[datallah]

Ticket #8185 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.

[felipec]

tomgr: I applied your patch to msn-pecan but we prefer to set the author of the patch, including the email if possible. Can I have it?

[tomgr]

felipec: You certainly can, it's thomas.gibsonrobinson AT gmail DOT com

[heartwarmer]

i applied the patch to pidgin 2.5.4 source,and installed it but it didnt work, am i missing something?

[yelo3]

tomgr: you have written this patch which works really well, but it seems that also offline messages cannot be received, maybe another small tweak like this is needed?

[tomgr]

Replying to yelo3:

tomgr: you have written this patch which works really well, but it seems that also offline messages cannot be received, maybe another small tweak like this is needed?

You might want to have a look at #7901 which is about the problem you describe; it was apparently fixed for 2.5.4 and it certainly seems to be working for me. Glad the patch works for you!

[yelo3]

No, that's not my problem. offline messages from pidgin users work well, but from the new windows live messenger are not received. to receive them I need to log in using windows live messenger, so I thought it was a problem like this and I wrote here. I think I must open a new bug