URI protocol for invoking pidgin

[Mohamed Hamed]

Thank you Daniel for the quick response.
It is working fine now after adding the message command.

However I had another problem. If the body has a space, nothing come after the space.
For ex:
 I created a bookmark as the following :

 javascript:(function(){window.location='xmpp:user.name at oracle.com?message;body=SR 12345';;})();;

 This successfully open the chat window for user.name with a body as "SR" and any text after the space is ignored.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Atallah [mailto:datallah at pidgin.im] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 4:44 PM
To: Mohamed Hamed
Cc: support at pidgin.im
Subject: Re: URI protocol for invoking pidgin

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Mohamed Hamed <mohamed.sayed at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Support.
>
> I need to develop html hyperlink to invoke pidgin and open chat window 
> for specific body.
>
> By searching the net. I found that pidgin on my pc has registered the 
> xmpp protocol.
>
> I have used the following :
>
>    xmpp: user at domain.com
>
>
>
> first time, when I clicked the hyper link, I was asked to confirm 
> pidgin application, and I did, but nothing happen after that, and the 
> pidgin did not open.
>
> In regedit , this is the configuration of the xmpp protocol
>
>
>
>   C:\Program Files\Pidgin\pidgin.exe --protocolhandler=%1
>
>
>
> For debuggin, I tried to run this from command prompt and it did not work.
> It seems that pidgin.exe does not accept any parameter to open a buddy 
> chat window.
>
>
>
> Please help how I can implement that.

The URI handling for XMPP accounts follows XEP-0147 (http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0147.html).

You need to specify that you want to send a message - the URI handler can also be used to add buddies and join MUCs:

xmpp:user at domain.com?message

You can optionally specify the account for the case where you have multiple XMPP accounts (this is not part of the XEP because the XEP doesn't consider the case for several accounts) , and an optional value to pre-populate the message window with:

xmpp:user at domain.com?account=myusername at domain.com;message;body=Hi


Note that these will only work if Pidgin is currently running, Pidgin will not be launched based on a URI handling attempt.

-D