sending im via libpurple causes microsofts msn messenger to quit

[Duncan Berriman]

Hi Mark,

Sorry just seen this reply.

I think I may have solved it. It appears there is a known issue with AVG (and some other firewalls). It has an option to shield MSN, Yahoo and ICQ. It appears it can cause random disconnects.

Just been logged off repeatedly in the last hour (every few minutes) and was starting to wonder what to do until I did and advanced google search looking for results in the last year.

So I think it was just coincidence I was using libpurple at the time.

Fingers crossed I don't see the problem again now I have disabled AVG shield for MSN.

Duncan

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Doliner [mailto:mark at kingant.net] 
Sent: 20 December 2010 19:28
To: Duncan Berriman
Cc: devel at pidgin.im
Subject: Re: sending im via libpurple causes microsofts msn messenger to quit

I haven't heard of this problem before.  Does it happen 100% of the time?  What function are you using to send the message?  And what parameters are you giving it?  What are you sending as the message?
HTML?  Plain text?

If you're able to reproduce this problem, it's probably worth trying to notify Microsoft about it.

--Mark

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Duncan Berriman <duncan at dcl.co.uk> wrote:
> Just built with V2.7.8 and same issue with libpurple and msn.
>
> Done some testing with other networks.
>
> Yahoo - works fine
> Google - works fine
> Using Yahoo library to talk to MSN account - works fine (except it 
> would appear incoming messages are only received at the libpurple end 
> when an outgoing message is sent) and of course there is quite a lag 
> in messages being received in MSN messenger.
> AIM - works fine.
>
> Anyone any idea why libpurple client keeps causing msn messenger of 
> buddy to crash?
>
> Thanks
> Duncan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel-bounces at pidgin.im [mailto:devel-bounces at pidgin.im] On 
> Behalf Of Duncan Berriman
> Sent: 20 December 2010 10:09
> To: devel at pidgin.im
> Subject: sending im via libpurple causes microsofts msn messenger to 
> quit
>
> Following on from previous message to the list I have now built my own 
> libpurple having removed the problematic request_input call and 
> instead just hard coded the call to finish_auth_request.
>
> My code can now successfully add an msn buddy and it is saved in MSN 
> (which is verified by logging on using msn messenger).
>
> Now a further problem.
>
> If I send messages via my client  using libpurple to the MSN contact 
> it causes the contact using MSN messenger to logout.
>
> Any ideas why libpurple is causing MSN Messenger to quit? Slightly 
> worrying it causes MSN's current  messenger to fail.
>
> Debug log below up to the point msn messenger fails.
>
> (09:58:47) msn: send IM {Hello} to xxx at hotmail.co.uk
> (09:58:47) msn: prepare to send online Message
> (09:58:47) msn: send via switchboard
> (09:58:47) msn: switchboard send msg..
> (09:58:47) msn: C: SB 004: MSG 7 A 148
>  (09:58:47) msn: S: SB 004: ACK 7
> (09:59:16) msn: C: NS 000: PNG
> (09:59:16) msn: S: NS 000: QNG 48
> (09:59:46) msn: C: NS 000: PNG
> (09:59:46) msn: S: NS 000: QNG 47
> (09:59:47) msn: destroy httpconn (0x91d4b08)
>  (09:59:48) msn: send IM {Hello} to xxx at hotmail.co.uk
> (09:59:48) msn: prepare to send online Message
> (09:59:48) msn: send via switchboard
> (09:59:48) msn: new httpconn (0x9209818)
> (09:59:48) msn: C: NS 000: XFR 26 SB
> (09:59:48) msn: switchboard send msg..
> (09:59:48) msn: Appending message to queue.
> (09:59:48) msn: S: NS 000: XFR 26 SB 64.4.44.26:1863 CKI
> 1165210067.24521976.210101249 U messenger.msn.com 1
> (09:59:48) msn: Switchboard:auth:{1165210067.24521976.210101249}
> socket:{64.4.44.26:1863}
> (09:59:48) dns: DNS query for '64.4.44.26' queued
> (09:59:48) dnsquery: IP resolved for 64.4.44.26
> (09:59:48) proxy: Attempting connection to 64.4.44.26
> (09:59:48) proxy: Connecting to 64.4.44.26:1863 with no proxy
> (09:59:48) proxy: Connection in progress
> (09:59:49) proxy: Connecting to 64.4.44.26:1863.
> (09:59:49) proxy: Connected to 64.4.44.26:1863.
> (09:59:49) msn: C: SB 005: USR 1
> yyy at hotmail.co.uk;{1BE99E6D-1C6E-4BEA-8B3E-9C464006A774}
> 1165210067.24521976.210101249
> (09:59:49) msn: S: SB 005: USR 1 OK
> yyy at hotmail.co.uk;{1be99e6d-1c6e-4bea-8b3e-9c464006a774} yyy
> (09:59:49) msn: C: SB 005: CAL 2 xxx at hotmail.co.uk
> (09:59:49) msn: S: SB 005: CAL 2 RINGING 1165210067
> (09:59:49) msn: S: SB 005: JOI
> xxx at hotmail.co.uk;{33fe9a67-6013-4498-b079-c38e04d0746b} xxx
> 3055849760:2609258384
> (09:59:49) msn: Processing queue
> (09:59:49) msn: Sending message
> (09:59:49) msn: C: SB 005: MSG 3 A 148
> (09:59:49) msn: switchboard send msg..
> (09:59:49) msn: C: SB 005: MSG 4 U 98
> (09:59:49) msn: S: SB 005: JOI xxx at hotmail.co.uk xxx 
> 3055849760:2609258384
> (09:59:49) msn: Processing queue
> (09:59:49) msn: switchboard send msg..
> (09:59:49) msn: C: SB 005: MSG 5 U 98
> (09:59:49) msn: S: SB 005: ACK 3
>  (10:00:24) msn: S: SB 005: BYE
> xxx at hotmail.co.uk;{33fe9a67-6013-4498-b079-c38e04d0746b}
> (10:00:24) msn: destroy httpconn (0x9209818)
> (10:00:24) msn: S: NS 000: FLN xxx at hotmail.co.uk 1 0:0
> (10:00:24) blist: Updating buddy status for xxx at hotmail.co.uk (MSN) 
> Buddy "xxx at hotmail.co.uk" (prpl-msn) signed off
>
> Duncan
>
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