Skype: MSN accounts isn't showed in bitlbee

[Zedde]

I have logged in with my msn account in skype on my virtual ubuntu desktop. All looks ok there.

In bitlbee only skype contacts is shown, msn contacts is just a space I have added prefix to all skype accounts so I get "skype- "

skyped.py ver 0.1.1

BitlBee-3.2+20130115+devel+969-1

[Miklos Vajna]

Hm, can you please also mention your Skype version?

[Zedde]

I'm running 4.1.0.20

[Zedde]

If I do a whois on the contact I get this:

09:30 [bitlbee] -!- Skype- [@skype.com]
09:30 [bitlbee] -!-  ircname  : Skype-
09:30 [bitlbee] -!-  server   : <my skype vm desktop server address>  [skype network]
09:30 [bitlbee] -!- End of WHOIS

[Miklos Vajna]

OK, I can reproduce this. There are two problems here:

• if you have a skype contact, which in fact an msn contact, the when they login in, skyped sends something like:

USER  ONLINESTATUS ONLINE

Note the double space. So the username is missing. This is easy to ignore, so you don't end up with a "skype-" (or in case you have no prefix, "_") nickname. I'll fix this in a bit.

• The more interesting question is why "SEARCH FRIENDS" does not list MSN contacts, "SEARCH FRIENDS" is supposed to return all your contacts... I don't have an answer for that ATM.

[Miklos Vajna]

​http://code.google.com/p/skype4pidgin/issues/detail?id=210 (see comment 6)

Seems I can only fix the fake account problem here...

[Miklos Vajna]

Actually, if one is interested in full MSN support, writing the BitlBee equivalent of this may make sense:

​http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-msn-xmpp/

But sorry, no, I don't plan to mess with OAuth. :-)

[Zedde]

So there is no solution to the problem except write xmpp "plugin" to bitlbee ?

[Miklos Vajna]

Yes, something like that. But if you look at the code:

​http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-msn-xmpp/source/browse/trunk/libmsnxmpp.c

It seems this is really just plain xmpp (what BitlBee already supports), just with custom authentication. Probably best to talk to Wilmer, I can imagine once the MSN servers are down, he'll update the msn module to do the same or so.

[Miklos Vajna]

Oh, actually the empty nickname part is something I wanted to fix.

[Miklos Vajna]

That's fixed now in r981.1.7.

[wilmer]

Replying to vmiklos:

It seems this is really just plain xmpp (what BitlBee already supports), just with custom authentication. Probably best to talk to Wilmer, I can imagine once the MSN servers are down, he'll update the msn module to do the same or so.

The Jabber module has support for this already:

​http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/browser/devel/protocols/jabber/sasl.c?rev=devel%2C982#L49

It's rather limited but it does presence and chat which is all that matters anyway.

[Miklos Vajna]

Indeed.

Zedde, I tried to collect the non-trivial bits at ​http://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoMsnXmpp, feel free to extend further as/if necessary. :-)