Fixing (Encryption + AIM Direct IM)

Stu Tomlinson stu at nosnilmot.com
Wed Dec 17 11:38:48 EST 2008


On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 11:21 -0500, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
> On the other side, peer_odc_handle_payload() parses the received
> message to do the reverse conversion: binary data to purple imgstore
> objects and their tag references.
> 
> 
> That's all well and good except that it fails miserably if the message
> being sent is encrypted, as with the OTR plugin,
> because purple_odc_send_im() and peer_odc_handle_payload() both see
> encrypted data and have no way of doing their thing.

Isn't this only a problem if someone tries to send an encrypted message
with an embedded image? wouldn't it be the right thing for this to fail
instead of sending the image unencrypted?

Regards,


Stu.





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