954938 - ability to send re-request authorization messages to buddies

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Contacts window, defect)

Description

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 1506 by leena.heino AT uta.fi at 2012-06-12 13:53:00 UTC ***

At the moment there is no way to send re-request authorization messages to buddies. There is a icon on the right corner in the conversation window that has icon and the text "[e-mail] click to change" but at the moment this does absolutely nothing.

Protocol: XMPP/Jabber
Versions affected: 1.1, trunk

Comment 1

[aleth [:aleth]]

*** Original post on bio 1506 at 2012-06-12 14:55:37 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #0)
> There is a icon on the right corner in the conversation window that
> has icon and the text "[e-mail] click to change" but at the moment
> this does absolutely nothing.

That icon is the "target selector" and doesn't have anything to do with authorizations. When you have two or more buddies merged as the same contact, you can use it to select the buddy (and hence the protocol) you are using to chat with. For example, if you have both a FB chat buddy and an AIM buddy for a friend, then you can merge them into the same contact in the contact list. After doing this, you can use the target selector to switch between FB and AIM while chatting.

Comment 2

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 1506 by leena.heino AT uta.fi at 2012-06-12 15:04:48 UTC ***

Thanks for the information.

The original question or problem still remains, there is no way to do following actions either in the trunk or in the 1.1 version:
- Unsubscribe (or deauthorize) status updates
- Re-request authorization

Comment 3

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 1506 at 2012-06-12 15:29:59 UTC ***

On trunk for Google Talk you can just use the File -> Add Buddy dialog of the contact list, if you already have the contact in your list but you aren't subscribed to the presence updates, it will re-request authorization.

Comment 4

[aleth [:aleth]]

*** Original post on bio 1506 at 2012-06-19 14:59:14 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #2)
> - Unsubscribe (or deauthorize) status updates

What do you mean by this, exactly? Why would you have a buddy but not want to know their current presence status?

Comment 5

[aleth [:aleth]]

*** Original post on bio 1506 at 2012-06-29 20:04:32 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #3)
> On trunk for Google Talk you can just use the File -> Add Buddy dialog of the
> contact list, if you already have the contact in your list but you aren't
> subscribed to the presence updates, it will re-request authorization.

This implies that this bug will be resolved automatically as soon as we use JS-XMPP for XMPP.

Comment 6

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 1506 at 2013-03-26 14:10:51 UTC ***

Confirming per comment 3.

Comment 7

[aleth [:aleth]]

Works in JS-XMPP (now default) as per comment 5.