[sr-dev] Your opinion about presence subscription blocking actions

[Iñaki Baz Castillo]

El Viernes, 19 de Febrero de 2010, Klaus Darilion escribió:
> Am 19.02.2010 12:10, schrieb Iñaki Baz Castillo:
> > But there is a problem with point 1 as it's not valid for the case in
> > which you block a user who was allowed. This is, subscription status
> > cannot transition from "active" to "pending", so the only way is using
> > case 3 in which the subscription status remains "active" but the presence
> > server sends a spoofed NOTIFY with "offline" status.
> 
> Why not terminate the subscription if Bob removes Alice from the allowed
> buddies?
> 
> Then Alice will SUBSCRIBE again and receives status=pending.

But then Alice will know (or can know) that you have rejected her!

Imagine you want to "captivate" Carol but don't want Alice to know that you 
are connected. You don't want to reject Alice, but just set "invisible" for 
her (you don't want to reject Alice because if you don't captivate Carol you 
would like to try with Alice later). :)


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Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc at aliax.net>