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Re: [Simple] niemi-simple-chat



Hi Cullen,

Thanks for the comments.

ext Cullen Jennings wrote:
Just and idle thought that I suspect has been discussed in the past...

If the CPIM To header was used to carry the names (or nicknames) of all the
desired recipients of the message, could we avoid adding a new method? Not
sure this is a good idea but what I am trying to achieve is to allow
baseline MSRP clients that don't understand the extensions in the "chat
specification" to be able to participate in a chat session where it just
looks like a robot. Clients that did understand chat would be able to do the
additional functionality of targeting messages at just a subset of the
users.

The previous version actually talked about this; all messages sent from the MSRP switch/mixer were SENDs. That way non-chat-aware clients could render them in the normal manner.


However, I think there is a privacy aspect to this. Replying to a note that was originally only supposed to be seen by a subset would be bad, so I think there would have to be some way to avoid that. The new method solves this, as those clients that don't support the method would reject the messages.

Another option could be a CPIM Require token for this, althogh I suspect it isn't widely supported. That's why a new method might stand a better chance of avoiding the information leakage.

Then there are many other, non-protocol means to solve the privacy issue, like prepending some [private] token to CPIM Subject, etc. So I'm open to any solution here that works, really.

Cheers,
Aki

Cullen


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