Pidgin Question

[John Kellogg]

Hi Mark,

 

I am using a Javascript command via a Firefox bookmark that calls xmpp to IM someone. The xmpp part of the javascript is like this for example:

 

'xmpp:'+email.value +'?message;body=Hello '+name+'. SR# '+SR.value+' needs First Contact done. Please update when you have a chance. Thanks.'

 

But when saving this as a bookmark, Firefox converts all spaces to %20 so what ends up being sent to Pidgin is text like this

 

Hello%20John.%20SR#%203-7665967361%20needs%20First%20Contact%20done.%20Please%20update%20when%20you%20have%20a%20chance.%20Thanks.

 

Pidgin takes the %20 literally and does not interpret it as the space character.

 

I came up with a solution in Pidgin by using the Text Replacement plugin and adding a replacement that converts the %20s to a space. This works fine for me.

 



 

Regards,

 

John L. Kellogg

 

 

 

 

From: Mark Doliner [mailto:mark at kingant.net] 
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 2:14 PM
To: John Kellogg
Cc: support at pidgin.im
Subject: Re: Pidgin Question

 

I'm confused... are you using Pidgin's purple-remote command? Or are you receiving an XMPP message that was created by JavaScript somewhere? It's not clear to me how you're using JavaScript to start a conversation.

 

In either case, have you tried passing in a space instead of %20?
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