MSNp14 status?

[Felipe Contreras]

On Jan 30, 2008 11:16 AM, Ka-Hing Cheung <khc at hxbc.us> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 06:51 -0500, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
> > I get asked by those crazy MSN users all the time what the status of
> > MSNp14 is.  Per the roadmap, there's just one open issue... is that an
> > accurate reflection of where it stands?
>
> Apology for the late reply.
>
> No, it's not an accurate reflection of the status. Currently there's
> msnp14 which is in i.p.p, then there's msnp15 in a branch. Both code
> bases do not renew the cookie/token (msnp14 doesn't even try, msnp15
> tries, but not correctly), so soap actions will eventually fail after
> you are logged in for a while. For msnp15, the "a while" is at least 8
> hours, so it's less a problem for that branch. It should be pretty easy
> to fix the msnp15 side.
>
> A few weeks ago when msn servers went down I got a crash from msnp14, I
> have the backtrace here, I should probably figure it out.
>
> Then there's random problems from people who can't log in. Most of which
> are because of gnutls. I don't know if it's because of the way we use
> it, or real gnutls bugs. Some of them are probably real gnutls bugs, but
> at least one person reported that 2.2.0 still fails for him. This is not
> msnp14 specific though, but someone more familiar with the issue should
> figure out which gnutls version (if any) is stable enough, or drop it
> altogether.

On my msn-pecan testing with valgrind I find a constant memory error
with the SSL stuff, I'm not sure if it's gnutls or what.

I suggest you try that.

> Another problem that people seem to encounter is ADL failures. I suspect
> this may be because of some buddy list out of sync issues, but I have no
> idea at this point. Do people still get 1000 dialog prompting for sync
> buddy list these days?

I'd drop support for the local list, but hey, that's just me :P

Best regards.

-- 
Felipe Contreras