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Open Tickets in MySpaceIM Protocol Plugin

#2661

msimprpl buddy search

#2789

msimprpl allow changing IM name capitalization and spacing

#2791

msimprpl blocklist/privacy support

#2794

msimprpl send IP addresses of network interface on login

#2800

msimprpl myim: URL enhancements

#2803

msimprpl look at newer versions of MySpaceIM

#2804

msimprpl version updating

#2905

msimprpl should disconnect if no keepalive is received periodically

#2918

msimprpl only adds up to 25 friends

#4689

msimprpl should know if buddies are on buddy list without MySpaceIM

#4691

msimprpl group chats

#4734

Msimprpl takes too long to login if there are too many buddies on the buddy list

#4775

Allow inviting non-IM buddies to MySpaceIM

#4855

msimprpl should verify the username is valid before setting

#4866

username setting memory leaks

#5019

msimprpl nested bold/italic/underline formatting - all levels

#8213

MySpace Expanded Alias Not Saving For Multiple Grouped Screen Names!

#8764

MySpaceIM seems to timeout under Linux and Windows with no notification

#9718

MySpaceIM buddy still "online" after server message

#9891

Crash when pasting text with wiki link

#9903

Add support for msim status moods

#9936

MySpace buddy doesn't stay in group when rearranging

#10537

Remove closed accounts from buddy list

#10747

MyspaceIM spambot detection is over-zealous

#10844

myspace IM problem

#10969

Myspace IM bug where if they're not already added your replies never reach them.

#11181

Myspace users don't stay in Pidgin groups

#11425

Myspace IM web users cannot recieve links from Myspace IM pidgin most of the time.

Related Open Tickets (not in MySpace component; add keyword "msimprpl" to list a ticket here)

#2930

libpurple purple_proxy_connect should have an equivalent to try multiple hosts/ports if one fails

#4688

Generic method to report unrecognized messages and optionally save to file for later analysis

#4766

Allow clicking music note next to buddy to play their music

#4810

Send Attention menu item in conversation menu should expand if there are multiple attention commands that can be sent

Things to do for MySpaceIM.

Possible Plugins

Closed tickets, since these features may be better implemented as a plugin:

• #4776 Allow prpls to specify a callback for when the music note next to a buddy is clicked

This plugin is up for implementing, if anyone is interested.

Various Open Items

Tickets haven't been filed for these yet.

• All the TODOs and XXX's mentioned in myspace.c
• (forever) Identify all other features in official client to implement in plugin.

From TODOs in myspace.c:

• Optionally dump unknown messages to a file, to help development. Add to msim_unrecognized().
• Free what should be freed.
• If keepalive or other message received within X minutes, then show as disconnected. Currently msimprpl doesn't detect a lost network connection.
• Handle if addbuddy fails.
• Update blocklist in addbuddy.
• Find out what full tooltip text is and make it different if it should be.

Libpurple changes:

• Try alternate ports, if first connection fails and is set to automatic. Store working port and use in the future first, trying others if it fails. (This is how the official client works.) Sean was talking about having a generic state-machine in libpurple, to try each of the ports that were given, so that the prpl wouldn't have to handle this.

Platforms and other clients:

• Test with Finch text-based IM program.
• Windows
  • Setup a Win32 virtual machine to test MySpaceIM without booting into Windows.
• OS X
  • Try using with Adium?

Completed Tasks

#2659

msimprpl webchallenge support

#2792

msimprpl message background

#2802

msimprpl implement prpl_info->normalize

#2820

msimprpl too much CPU usage when importing friends, appears to hang, may freeze on Vista

#2844

msimprpl should allow user to choose IM username if not already set

#2931

Msimprpl user info overflow

#3064

MySpaceIM handles status information inconsistently

#3143

msimprpl 2-level nested bold/italic/underline formatting

#3201

MySpace should set wants_to_die when disconnected from another machine logging on

#3222

Pidgin crashes when connecting to MySpaceIM possibly after receiving offline messages

#3237

msimprpl allocates 2 GB of memory and crashes (Windows)

#3259

MyspaceIM doesn't show idle buddies

#3281

msimppl leaks memory in statstring, username, key_context, storing user info, user, MsimMessage dictionary parsing

#3303

msimppl leaks memory in statstring, username, key_context, storing user info, user, MsimMessage dictionary parsing

#3378

Group ordering not retained if MySpace IM account is enabled

#3406

Online users appear offline

#3645

MyspaceIM protocol sending massive font size

#3840

MySpace: Change in away status sometimes causes disconnect with "Invalid input condition" message

#3868

MySpace Contacts Ungroup on Restart

#3976

Myspace IM usernames not displayed correctly

#4000

Myspace IM always disconnected

#4001

Myspace IM always disconnected

#4013

not able to IM with friends on myspace

#4140

msimprpl should use PURPLE_STATUS_TUNE to show current song playing

#4182

MySpaceIM login attempt

#4206

MyspaceIM lockup when logging in. Pidgin consumes massive amounts of memory.

#4369

MyspaceIM error 260 when logging in to an account with an 11-character password, should ask user to change password

#4621

MySpaceIM freezes on login if account has too many buddies and read buffer overflows

#4631

msimprpl normalize should lookup user IDs not on buddy list

#4678

MySpaceIM infinite loop at signon or when updating "friends" list from server

#4687

msimprpl sending a message to a non-existent user should show error in IM window, not in a popup dialog

#4735

For msimprpl, look into using PurpleCircBuffer

#4736

myspace memory leak

#4737

msimprpl memory leak (msim_uid2username_from_blist)

#4755

Propagate t:v2.4.0 to im.pidgin.soc.2007.msimprpl

#4779

Move MsimProtocolSpec to IM Freedom wiki

#4790

myspace protocol performance improvement: call strlen outside of loop in msim_unescape

#4841

Group that buddy is in isn't changed when rearranging

#4856

msimprpl set username commands should use symbolic constants

#4857

immediately after setting a username, outgoing messages still appear as from a uid

#4937

msim_normalize() error during initialization of libpurple

#5136

msim doesn't convert to UTF-8

#5143

Patch: msim Ignore bots

#5194

MySpaceIM + XP Crash When No "@" Or Incorrect Screenname

#5240

Deleting buddy from MyspaceIM results in Protocol error, code 2817

#5253

password verification for MySpace IM

#5259

msimprpl font size setting reads from "port" instead of "dpi"

#5360

Myspace IM buddies whose song info has been gathered are not being sent to the right place

#5759

MySpace still exists

#6035

Contacts moved to a different list move back upon restart of Pidgin

#7089

will not log into myspace i.m.

#7247

myspace buddy list

#7361

MySpaceIM won't login as of today.

#7442

MYSPACE IM blocked

#7444

myspace im wont connect.

#7584

Protocol error, code 270: Error getting contact list from DB

#8183

no libmyspace.so or libmyspace.la in Pidgin packages for FreeBSD

#8633

myspace chat

#8846

people using web myspaceIM can't respond to pidgin myspaceIM

#9051

MySpaceIM doesn't handle disconnects

#9122

wont connect to myspace in windows vista

#9123

wont connect to myspace in vista

#9126

myspace im won't connect

#9203

Code 260: Myspace's New In-Browser IM App. Conflict?

#9370

MySpace IM not working

#9472

cant log into myspace

#9528

Myspace "Available - Connecting" forever.

#9615

Myspace IM friends are marked as offline when they are not

#9887

Myspace IM friend status update IM's

#9943

Buddy doesn't see URLs written in chat

#10125

Database entries received from some offline MySpaceIM friends

#10821

myspaceIM contacts not adding

#192

document prpl_info->list_icon(NULL, NULL)

#193

msimprpl crashes when login fails

#194

msimprpl myim: URL support, addContact and sendIM with cID and uID parameters

#648

msimprpl-20070502 snapshot crashes Pidgin 2.0.0

#677

msimprpl needs Tango love

#678

msimprpl needs Tango love

#1990

msimprpl 0.8 crashes when logging in on Windows

#1995

msimprpl 0.7 crashes when saving account on Vista

#1996

msimprpl 0.7 crashes when logging in with invalid email address, invalid cast from GtkEventBox to GtkButton

#1999

msimprpl 0.8 crashes on Windows when viewing tooltip text

#2010

msimprpl 0.9 limits passwords to 8 characters

#2036

msimprpl sometimes crashes in purple_debug_vargs on Windows

#2086

msimprpl: config.status: error: invalid argument: libpurple/protocols/myspace/Makefile

#2281

msimprpl: 0.12 doesn't build on gcc 4.1.2 (Fedora 7)

#2295

Add Account >> MSN >> "Screen name" should be "E-mail Address"

#2400

Crash when deleting a myspace contact

#2520

msimprpl crashes if set signed-on signal handler

#2521

msimprpl garbles links in messages

#2637

msimprpl status messages need to correctly handle formatting and escaped characters

#2658

msimprpl server-side contacts: addbuddy persistance request

#2659

msimprpl webchallenge support

#2660

msimprpl import all friends

#2662

Attention API for msim, yahoo, msn prpl's

#2720

msimprpl disconnects or crashes when adding non-existent buddy

#2722

msimprpl still notifies of new mail even with "New mail notifications" in account options isn't checked

#2723

g_log: ATK_ROLE_TOOLTIP object found, but doesn't look like a tooltip.

#2724

msimprpl should fetch buddy information and icons on sign-on

#2725

msimprpl sometimes crashes in buddy icon download, accessing freed memory

#2752

libpurple lets you add buddies to blist inside groups that aren't on blist; leads to duplicate groups

#2788

Pidgin attention GUI

#2790

msimprpl web challenge support

#2792

msimprpl message background

#2793

msimprpl should show username instead of email address in outgoing messages

#2802

msimprpl implement prpl_info->normalize

#2820

msimprpl too much CPU usage when importing friends, appears to hang, may freeze on Vista

#2824

Port retry on fail and Save working port

#2844

msimprpl should allow user to choose IM username if not already set

#2906

msimprpl shows timestamp message was received instead of sent

#2914

PurpleAccount servalias field

#2920

File cleanup on msimprpl-related wiki pages

#2931

Msimprpl user info overflow

#2934

Compiling msimprpl 0.17

#2953

libpurple parse_redirect() redirects on Content-Location header, instead of only Location

#3064

MySpaceIM handles status information inconsistently

#3096

msimprpl fails to build in Solaris 9, needs Unix line endings

#3143

msimprpl 2-level nested bold/italic/underline formatting

#3237

msimprpl allocates 2 GB of memory and crashes (Windows)

#3281

msimppl leaks memory in statstring, username, key_context, storing user info, user, MsimMessage dictionary parsing

#3303

msimppl leaks memory in statstring, username, key_context, storing user info, user, MsimMessage dictionary parsing

#4140

msimprpl should use PURPLE_STATUS_TUNE to show current song playing

#4735

For msimprpl, look into using PurpleCircBuffer

#4779

Move MsimProtocolSpec to IM Freedom wiki

#4856

msimprpl set username commands should use symbolic constants

#7361

MySpaceIM won't login as of today.

#9203

Code 260: Myspace's New In-Browser IM App. Conflict?

• #2660 Option to import friends.
• Make msim_uid2username_from_blist work, so can avoid sending queries.
• msim_preprocess_incoming() used to send a uid-to-username message for every incoming message that has a userid field. Now cached, and also looked at buddy list, to avoid wasteful resolving.
• Add dictionaries, lists (data types used by protocol) support to MsimMessage?.
• Merge branch with im.pidgin.pidgin branch for 2.1.2 release.
• Viewing buddy icon (avatar) support.
• Use PurpleBuddy? proto_data, make MsimBuddy? and use it instead of purple_blist_node_set for most cases.
• See what happens and handle case where buddies don't have a username.
  • Works fine - shows up as userid
• Full emoticon support. Added in a86871bab386756aedf22d0e32c92bf2a2025afe
• Compile list of msimprpl icons with screenshots for Hylke to add to Pidgin.
  • http://msimprpl.darkthoughts.net/emotes/
• Disable sending version.
  • Can be enabled by compile-time option MSIM_SEND_CLIENT_VERSION.
• What does official client do for passwords > 10 characters?
  • Nothing; you can only have passwords up to 10 characters (in password change page of web site)
• Fix unofficial client not appearing in buddy info; overwritten by build number (instead, store separately)
• Sending and receiving zaps. Sending with 59ecc80801c1319db79adf2e337e58b1684edd0e.
• Outgoing emoticon support (make sure have an option to disable, since it could interfere with text). Completed in 0c554819c517bd017bccf06a9c1c29bc6447555c.
• Display incoming emoticons.
• Show official client build version in profile
• Send buddy messages with code 200 (arbitrary) with Pidgin and msimprpl version, so can tell msimprpl version of buddies in other msimprpl clients. See how Miranda IM plugin does it and use the same format.
• Notifications, particularly for: new mail, new friend request, new comment (see Alerts and Sounds in official client preferences for full list).
• Set away, hidden, or online message (status string).
• Set status to previous status, remove hidden option.
• Support longer passwords - #2010. 10 characters, same as official.
• Set status (away, hidden, online). Also added option to sign on as hidden.
• Fix Windows crashes.
• Install Windows so I can debug msimprpl on it more
• Fake own user from being online. Added in 16092ccc33204bf758b6d642ee0df4f0bc27d6bc
• Interpret different font faces, sizes, and decorations (bold/italic/underline) on incoming messages. e8d6248c4e56624be65f329b8dc7790f1d7fdad3
• Show an error if passwords are greater than maximum length. 28946cbbe6a117256cb43c622f57c8d3203cb404 and #193 has some mention of this problem.
• Offline messages. msim_offline_message() now always returns TRUE, so libpurple now knows that msimprpl supports offline IM's. The protocol doesn't distinguish between offline and online instant messages.
• Allow showing buddy information in profile, for all users (even those not on buddy list), using "Get Info"--added in 1ff1633aac1aabb3e434493d376ee8f2fc6b3fd4, you now can "get info" on all users, by uid or username.
• Setup cross-compiler for Win32 libmsim.dll on Linux. Added in 8ad5d96a69dddb5de9f5b721cdb0603b7cfcf9ea.
• Show headline in status text, or display name, or both (make configurable, similar to official client)
• Fix session corruption bug in login and logout. Ticket #193.
• Show buddy information in profile, for users on buddy list
• User information tooltip, shown in 926d75620197cdcadaf228d7ee0440cb62afafb6
• Improvements, goal 2007-06-17
  • Improved buddy list support:
  • Add buddy.
  • Delete buddy -- in ba036131697508efd6f95a627658c5118dd95c16 as of 2007-06-13
• Typing notifications. Added in bfe1ec88b129e372a60b44087d1c79e3f9ebeb00
• msim_remove_buddy needs your userid; obtain it, save with account, and use it. Saved in 'userid' field of MsimSession? upon login; no need to call persist message 1,4,5 to obtain our own userid.
• Associate userid with buddy list items.
• Adapt the following functions to use msim_postprocess_outgoing():
  • msim_send_im
  • msim_add_buddy newprofileid
  • msim_remove_buddy delprofileid
• Status notifications: buddy sign on/off
• Improve username/email to userid resolving, incorporating suggestions from Sean Egan. This is a crucial part of the code that would make adding buddy list improvements, typing notifications, and many other features easier to implement. 6b04b9f90adf5cc6e39fb43b3a881bdb78fdd239
  • seanegan: "There's a mechanism in blist.h that will let you save random data about a user, such as this [numeric userid]. That way you don't even need to do it everytime they login. Just once ever. Then for people who aren't on your list, I'd just maintain a GList in your proto_data struct which contains information about the pending message."
• Setup MsimMessage? to be used also for receiving messages. Lot of work, but it is now complete in d8fa2d310531564d344fe314e08a25ac5f89c949. This change will bring greater flexibility and allow msimprpl to be expanded easier and cleanlier.
• MsimMessage?: generic protocol message sending function, that handles packing of messages. New MsimMessage? struct? Need to add types, so know what values to escape (not base64'd binary fields, such as 'response'), need to be able to have multiple values for the same key (used in WebChallenge? message), preferably preserve order (since command name usually comes first), handle basic types (integers, strings, binary data).
  • 419: * TODO: escape the values that should be, don't escape what shouldn't! */
  • 515: * TODO: types
  • 662: /* TODO: use msim_send. But, response_str must NOT be escaped. */
  • 1022: /* TODO: Remove this code and use MsimMessage? after it is implemented and escapes strings. */
  • 1025: /* TODO: escape values */
  • 1029: /* TODO: Remove this code and use MsimMessage? after it is implemented and escapes strings. */
  • 1376: /* TODO: generic functions to split into a GList */
  • 1777: /* TODO: escape values */
• In parser: translate /1 to / on incoming, and / to /1 on outgoing.
• Add options to change connect server and port. ae64e4477492f939c14cd37043f4ba39410e8056
• Remove usages of g_assert since it closes whole program. Fixed in 26b81a00d32bd3c7eac9a260fbf54b8fa4ebfabf. rlaager in #648:

P.S. For the record, we (the Pidgin team) generally feel it's inappropriate to use g_assert() because that kills the program hard.

• Internationalization (use _ macro). Fixed in 26b81a00d32bd3c7eac9a260fbf54b8fa4ebfabf. rlaager in #648:

marking strings for translation and adding appropriate files to po/POTFILES.in? The following is helpful for checking that you've got POTFILES.in right:

cd po intltool-update -m

• Write escape/unescape functions (for /1 and /2)
• Develop msimprpl within the Pidgin/libpurple tree (on a separate branch, im.pidgin.soc.2007.msimprpl, but in the tree nonetheless), instead of as a stand-alone package like mockprpl
• Cosmetic: use prpl icon from hbons, instead of meanwhile icon.
• Use g_convert for UTF-16LE conversion instead of converting manually (idea from Nathan Peterson)
• Push local changes (including branch im.pidgin.soc.2007.msimprpl) to pidgin.im database (my public key has been added to the server.) http://pidgin.im/pipermail/commits/2007-April/001560.html
• Use RC4 from cipher.c (Purple Cipher API), instead of adding RC4 code to myspace.c
• Started blogging on planet-soc.com.
• Apply Nathan Peterson's rc4 patch to cipher.c to local MTN
• Port plugin to libpurple from Monotone, instead of Gaim 2.0.0beta6 libgaim.
• Create im.pidgin.soc.2007.msimprpl branch in MTN repo and work from there. (have in local database--distributed version control is cool)
• Parsing protocol messages
• Login (using email address only)
• Send IM by userid, username, or email
• Receive IM
• Some buddy list support (unstable/incomplete)
• Tooltip text on buddy list
• Win32 support

Unlikely to Happen

I'm not against these changes, and could be persuaded otherwise, but I don't plan to work on them for the time being.

Infrastructure and other improvements (postponed until necessary):

• Send outgoing messages using a PurpleCircBuffer? like other prpls
• Change msim_lookup_user() to queue messages in a GList, instead of having messy callbacks.
• Use GList instead of callbacks for replies?