apparent mangling of outgoing messages

Submitted by Robert McQueen @ramcq

Assigned to Telepathy bugs list

Link to original bug (#14063)

Description

01:45 < Robot101> resiak: uh 01:46 < Robot101> resiak: haze is mangling my outgoing messages, or at least, mangling how they appear to me 01:46 < Robot101> method call sender=:1.32 -> dest=:1.26 path=/org/freedesktop/Telepathy/Connection/haze/msn/robot101_40passport_2ecom/ImChannel9; interface=org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.Text; member=Send uint32 0 string "www.foo.com ftp.bar.com" 01:46 < Robot101> signal sender=:1.26 -> dest=(null destination) path=/org/freedesktop/Telepathy/Connection/haze/msn/robot101_40passport_2ecom/ImChannel9; interface=org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.Text; member=Sent uint32 1200275114 uint32 0 string "www.foo.com ftp.bar.com (ftp://ftp.bar.com)" 01:46 < Robot101> the brackety thing's a bit weird isn't it? 01:46 < resiak> nnnrnghghnh libpurple 01:47 < resiak> this is a combination libpurple's "html"-to-plaintext function and its htmlification of the message in the first place 01:47 < Robot101> it turns ftp.foo.com to ftp.foo.com</a> to send 01:48 < Robot101> then when it turns that to text, ftp.foo.com != ftp://ftp.foo.com so it puts the link in brackets 01:48 < resiak> yep 01:48 < Robot101> because if I'd received <a href="badgers">snake</a>, showing me snake (badgers) is reasonable in plain text 01:48 < Robot101> shame its not idempotent 01:49 < resiak> the irritating thing is, MSN doesn't even support links with text different to their URL 01:49 < resiak> so actually what's happening is: 01:49 < resiak> * you ask for "foo.com ftp.bar.com" to be sent 01:49 < resiak> * it is sent 01:49 < resiak> * the prpl tells the core it's sent it 01:49 < resiak> * the core HTMLifies it 01:49 < resiak> * the core raises the sent signal 01:49 < resiak> * haze only has the HTMLified version, so has to call purple_html_to_text (or whatever it's called) 01:50 < Robot101> haha 01:50 < Robot101> go team haze 01:50 < Robot101> er 01:50 < resiak> file a bug against me so i don't forget 01:50 < Robot101> purple 01:50 < Robot101> sent-actually? 01:50 < resiak> i have to do the sleeping thing 01:51 < resiak> yeah, or just fix up messages to be passed around libpurple as (Either PlainText HTML) or some isomorphic datatype :)