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Advice on processing chat history containing OTR transcript #11

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cobratbq opened this issue Mar 9, 2019 · 0 comments
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Advice on processing chat history containing OTR transcript #11

cobratbq opened this issue Mar 9, 2019 · 0 comments
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cobratbq commented Mar 9, 2019

Some networks allow receiving historic conversation content. Such message dumps may include a (in)complete OTR transcript, from query tag to end-of-session. In case a client is aware that this concerns historic chat messages, we may want to advise skipping processing of these messages altogether - or special treatment.

For example, IRCv3's chat history extension describes how one could receive a batch that is a complete conversation. XMPP seems to have something similar, although I'm not fully aware of XMPP features.

Consider the following issues:

  • processing historic messages will result in failing OTR sessions, hence not desirable.
  • not processing messages at all, will result in OTR-encoded "message spam" in the client chat window.
@cobratbq cobratbq changed the title Advise to skip processing chat history Advice on processing chat history containing OTR transcript Mar 9, 2019
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