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Make our purple_util_fetch_url_request() function able to handle
fetching stuff from https urls. This is needed by yahoo's
webmessenger style login, if we want to try enable it again.
And it will be needed by the new oscar authentication.
I wrote this maybe a year ago and we've been using it at Meebo
with no problems, but it would be great if one person could look
through these changes.
| author | Mark Doliner <mark@kingant.net> |
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| date | Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:08:20 +0000 |
| parents | afee8b840d91 |
| children | 0edd1e140b6e |
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nullprpl -------- OVERVIEW -------- Nullprpl is a mock protocol plugin for Pidgin and libpurple. You can create accounts with it, sign on and off, add buddies, and send and receive IMs, all without connecting to a server! Beyond that basic functionality, nullprpl supports presence and away/available messages, offline messages, user info, typing notification, privacy allow/block lists, chat rooms, whispering, room lists, and protocol icons and emblems. Notable missing features are file transfer and account registration and authentication. Nullprpl is intended as an example of how to write a libpurple protocol plugin. It doesn't contain networking code or an event loop, but it does demonstrate how to use the libpurple API to do pretty much everything a prpl might need to do. Nullprpl is also a useful tool for hacking on Pidgin, Finch, and other libpurple clients. It's a full-featured protocol plugin, but doesn't depend on an external server, so it's a quick and easy way to exercise test new code. It also allows you to work while you're disconnected. ----------------------- BUILDING AND INSTALLING ----------------------- To build, just run ./configure as usual in the root directory of the pidgin source distribution. Then cd libpurple/protocols/null and type make. To install, copy libnull.la and .libs/libnull.so into your ~/.purple/plugins directory. Then run Pidgin. To build nullprpl on Windows (with Cygwin/MinGW), use Makefile.mingw. ----- USAGE ----- To add a nullprpl account, go to the account editor window and click Add. Select Nullprpl from the protocol drop-down list, and enter any username you want. Now, use Pidgin like normal. You can add buddies, send IMs, set away messages, etc. If you send IMs to your own username, they will be echoed back to you.