There is a not so fun thing about IM. This IM world is ruled by closed protocols like MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu. My target is MSN.

Currently in Kopete, if you receive a file from a user using MSN Messenger 7.5(7.0 works fine), the resulting file is null(0 bytes). I’m refering to bug #116950 in KDE’s Bugzilla. Since the guy who refactored the MSN P2P protocol in Kopete is gone, the bug is left unfixed. Users and not happy with that annoying bug and me too. So because nobody is trying to fix the bug, I tried myself. So I captured packets from file transfert in MSN 7.0 and MSN 7.5. And the packets are mostly the same ! I’m really not a expert of MSN P2P too. So where this bug came from I don’t know. So if someone want to look after this bug, MSN plugin users will really appreciate

With this lead to my rant. I’m really tired of all those undocumented IM protocols, and changing protocol all the time. This is bad and open-source developers waste their time trying to reverse-engineering these protocols. So please, use Jabber. It’s open, decentralized and fully documented. And we have a KDE Jabber here at KDETalk, so don’t be afraid to use it

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