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-rw-r--r--docs/MISSION.md40
-rw-r--r--docs/observations.md (renamed from docs/obeservations.md)58
-rw-r--r--src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/parser/IqParser.java4
-rw-r--r--src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/jingle/JingleConnection.java4
-rw-r--r--src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/jingle/JingleConnectionManager.java2
-rw-r--r--src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/jingle/JingleInbandTransport.java6
-rw-r--r--src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/stanzas/IqPacket.java2
7 files changed, 58 insertions, 58 deletions
diff --git a/docs/MISSION.md b/docs/MISSION.md
index 74399e74..5e867194 100644
--- a/docs/MISSION.md
+++ b/docs/MISSION.md
@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
Conversations is a messenger for the next decade. Based on already established
-internet standards that have been around for over ten years Coversations isn’t
+internet standards that have been around for over ten years Conversations isn’t
trying to replace current commercial messengers. It will simply outlive them.
-Commercial, closed source products are coming and going. 15 years ago we had
-ICQ which was replaced by Skype. MySpace was replaced by Facebook. WhatsApp and
-Hangouts will disapear soon. Internet standards however stick around. People are
-still using IRC and e-mail even though these protocols have been around for
+Commercial, closed source products are coming and going. 15 years ago we had ICQ
+which was replaced by Skype. MySpace was replaced by Facebook. WhatsApp and
+Hangouts will disappear soon. Internet standards however stick around. People
+are still using IRC and e-mail even though these protocols have been around for
decades. Utilizing proven standards doesn’t mean one can not evolve. GMail has
revolutionized the way we look at e-mail. Firefox and Chrome have changed the
way we use the Web. Conversations will change the way we look at instant
-messaging. Being less obstrusive than a telephone call instant messaging has
-always played an importent role in modern society. Conversations will show that
-instant messaging can be fast, relialbe and private. Conversations will not
-force its security and privacey aspects upon the user. For those willing to use encryption
-Conversations will make it as uncomplicated as possible. However Conversations
-is aware that end-to-end encryption by the very principle isn’t trivial. Instead
-of trying the impossible and making encryption easier than comparing a
-fingerprint Conversations will try to educate the willing user and explain the
-necessary steps and the reasons behind them. Those unwilling to learn about
-encryption will still be protected by the design principals of Conversations.
-Conversations will simply not share or generate certain information for example
-by encouraging the use of federated servers. Conversations will always
-utilize the best available standards for encryption and media encoding instead
-of reinventing the wheel. However it isn’t afraid to break with behavior patterns
-that have been proven ineffctive.
+messaging. Being less obtrusive than a telephone call instant messaging has
+always played an important role in modern society. Conversations will show that
+instant messaging can be fast, reliable and private. Conversations will not
+force its security and privacy aspects upon the user. For those willing to use
+encryption Conversations will make it as uncomplicated as possible. However
+Conversations is aware that end-to-end encryption by the very principle isn’t
+trivial. Instead of trying the impossible and making encryption easier than
+comparing a fingerprint Conversations will try to educate the willing user and
+explain the necessary steps and the reasons behind them. Those unwilling to
+learn about encryption will still be protected by the design principals of
+Conversations. Conversations will simply not share or generate certain
+information for example by encouraging the use of federated servers.
+Conversations will always utilize the best available standards for encryption
+and media encoding instead of reinventing the wheel. However it isn’t afraid to
+break with behavior patterns that have been proven ineffective.
diff --git a/docs/obeservations.md b/docs/observations.md
index f4e4bf17..71502424 100644
--- a/docs/obeservations.md
+++ b/docs/observations.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Observations on implementing XMPP
=================================
After spending the last two and a half month basically writing my own XMPP
library from scratch I decided to share some of the observations I made in the
-process.. In part this article can be seen as a response to a blog post made by
+process. In part this article can be seen as a response to a blog post made by
Dr. Ing. Georg Lukas. The blog post introduces a couple of XEP (XMPP Extensions)
which make the life on mobile devices a lot easier but states that they are
currently very few implementations of those XEPs. So I went ahead and
@@ -19,27 +19,27 @@ and straight forward. But then came the XEPs.
###Multi-User Chat
The first one was XEP-0045 Multi-User Chat. This is the one XEP of the XEPs I’m
going to mention in my article which is actually wildly adopted. Most clients
-and servers I know of support MUC. However the level of completeness varies.
+and servers I know of support MUC. However the level of completeness varies.
MUC actually introduces access and permission roles which are far more complex
than what some of us are used to from IRC but a lot of clients just don’t
implement them. I’m not implementing them myself (at least for now) because I
-somewhat doubt that someone would actually use them. (How ever this might be
-some sort of chicken or egg problem.) I did find some strange bugs though which
-might be interesting for other library developers. In theory a MUC server
+somewhat doubt that someone would actually use them (however this might be some
+sort of chicken or egg problem). I did find some strange bugs though which might
+be interesting for other library developers. In theory a MUC server
implementation can allow a single user (same jid) to join a conference room
multiple times with the same nick from different clients. This means if someone
wants to participate in a conference from two different devices (mobile and
-desktop for example) one wouldn’t have to name oneself userDesktop and
-userMobile but just user. Both ejabberd and prosody support this but with
-strange side effects. prosody for example doesn’t allow a user to change its
+desktop for example) one wouldn’t have to name oneself `userDesktop` and
+`userMobile` but just `user`. Both ejabberd and prosody support this but with
+strange side effects. Prosody for example doesn’t allow a user to change its
name once two clients are “merged” by having the same nick.
###Carbons and Stream Management
-Two of the other XEPs Lukas’ mentions - Carbons (XEP-0280) and Stream Management
-(XEP-0198) - were actually fairly easy to implement. The only challenges were to
-find a server to support them (I ended up running my own prosody server) and a
-desktop client to test them with. For carbons there is a patched mcabber version
-and gajim. After implementing stream management I had very good results on my
+Two of the other XEPs Lukas mentions — Carbons (XEP-0280) and Stream Management
+(XEP-0198) — were actually fairly easy to implement. The only challenges were to
+find a server to support them (I ended up running my own Prosody server) and a
+desktop client to test them with. For carbons there is a patched Mcabber version
+and Gajim. After implementing stream management I had very good results on my
mobile device. I had sessions running for up to 24 hours with a walking outside,
loosing mobile coverage for a few minutes and so on. The only limitation was
that I had to keep on developing and reinstalling my app.
@@ -52,14 +52,14 @@ come to some sort of consent among XMPP developers to ultimately increase the
interoperability. OTR has some down sides which make it difficult or at times
even dangerous to implement within XMPP. First of all it is a synchronous
protocol which is tunneled through a different protocol (XMPP). Synchronous
-means - among other things - auto replies. (An OTR session begins with “hi I’m
-speaking otr give me your key” “ok cool here is my key”) And auto replies - we
-know that since the first time an out of office auto responder went postal - are
+means — among other things — auto replies. (An OTR session begins with “hi I’m
+speaking otr give me your key” “ok cool here is my key”) And auto replies — we
+know that since the first time an out of office auto responder went postal — are
dangerous. Things really start to get messy when you use one of the best
-features of XMPP - multiple clients. The way XMPP works is that clients are
+features of XMPP — multiple clients. The way XMPP works is that clients are
encouraged to send their messages to the raw jid and let the server decide what
full jid the messages are routed to. If in doubt even all of them. So what
-happens when Alice sends a start-otr-message to Bobs raw jid? Bob receives the
+happens when Alice sends a start-otr-message to Bobs raw jid? Bob receives the
message on his notebook as well as his cell phone. Both of them answer. Alice
gets two different replies. Shit explodes. Even if Alice sends the message to
bob/notebook chances are that Bob has carbon messages enabled and still receives
@@ -67,11 +67,11 @@ the messages on both devices. Now assuming that Bobs client is clever enough not
to auto reply to carbonated messages Bob/cellphone will still end up with a lot
of garbage messages. (Essentially the entire conversation between Alice and
Bob/notebook but unreadable of course) Therefor it should be good practice to
-tag OTR messages as both private and no-copy. (private is part of the carbons
-XEP, no-copy is a general hint. I found that prosody for some reasons doesn’t
+tag OTR messages as both private and no-copy (private is part of the carbons
+XEP, no-copy is a general hint). I found that prosody for some reasons doesn’t
honor the private tag on outgoing messages. While this is easily fixed I presume
that having both the private and the no-copy tag will make it more compatible
-with servers or clients I don’t know about yet)
+with servers or clients I don’t know about yet.
####Rules to follow when implementing OTR
To summarize my observations on implementing OTR in XMPP let me make the
@@ -81,17 +81,17 @@ following three statements.
and have the receiving server or user decide how they should be routed OTR
messages must be send to a specific resource. To make this work the user should
be given the option to select the presence (which can be assisted with some
-educated guessing by the client based on previous messages).
-Furthermore a client should encourage a user to choose meaningful presences
-instead of the clients name or even random ones. Something like /mobile,
-/notebook, /desktop is a greater assist to any one who wants to start an otr
-session then /Gajim, /mcabber or /pidgin
+educated guessing by the client based on previous messages). Furthermore a
+client should encourage a user to choose meaningful presences instead of the
+clients name or even random ones. Something like `/mobile`, `/notebook`,
+`/desktop` is a greater assist to any one who wants to start an otr session then
+`/Gajim`, `/mcabber` or `/pidgin`.
2. Messages should be tagged private and no-copy to avoid unnecessary traffic or
otr error loops with faulty clients. This tagging should be done even if your
own client doesn’t support carbons.
-3. When dealing with “legacy clients” - meaning clients which don’t follow my
-advise a client should be extra careful not to create message loops. This means
-to not respond with otr errors if a client is not 100% sure it is the only
+3. When dealing with “legacy clients” — meaning clients which don’t follow my
+advise — a client should be extra careful not to create message loops. This
+means to not respond with otr errors if a client is not 100% sure it is the only
client which received the message
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/parser/IqParser.java b/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/parser/IqParser.java
index 5ed3b5b4..31006f0f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/parser/IqParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/parser/IqParser.java
@@ -141,12 +141,12 @@ public class IqParser extends AbstractParser implements OnIqPacketReceived {
.discoResponse(packet);
account.getXmppConnection().sendIqPacket(response, null);
} else if (packet.hasChild("ping", "urn:xmpp:ping")) {
- final IqPacket response = packet.generateRespone(IqPacket.TYPE_RESULT);
+ final IqPacket response = packet.generateResponse(IqPacket.TYPE_RESULT);
mXmppConnectionService.sendIqPacket(account, response, null);
} else {
if ((packet.getType() == IqPacket.TYPE_GET)
|| (packet.getType() == IqPacket.TYPE_SET)) {
- final IqPacket response = packet.generateRespone(IqPacket.TYPE_ERROR);
+ final IqPacket response = packet.generateResponse(IqPacket.TYPE_ERROR);
final Element error = response.addChild("error");
error.setAttribute("type", "cancel");
error.addChild("feature-not-implemented",
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/jingle/JingleConnection.java b/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/jingle/JingleConnection.java
index 3a1ba778..d578ca38 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/jingle/JingleConnection.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/jingle/JingleConnection.java
@@ -191,10 +191,10 @@ public class JingleConnection implements Downloadable {
}
IqPacket response;
if (returnResult) {
- response = packet.generateRespone(IqPacket.TYPE_RESULT);
+ response = packet.generateResponse(IqPacket.TYPE_RESULT);
} else {
- response = packet.generateRespone(IqPacket.TYPE_ERROR);
+ response = packet.generateResponse(IqPacket.TYPE_ERROR);
}
account.getXmppConnection().sendIqPacket(response, null);
}
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/jingle/JingleConnectionManager.java b/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/jingle/JingleConnectionManager.java
index 72c960d8..b0a730b1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/jingle/JingleConnectionManager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/jingle/JingleConnectionManager.java
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ public class JingleConnectionManager extends AbstractConnectionManager {
return;
}
}
- IqPacket response = packet.generateRespone(IqPacket.TYPE_ERROR);
+ IqPacket response = packet.generateResponse(IqPacket.TYPE_ERROR);
Element error = response.addChild("error");
error.setAttribute("type", "cancel");
error.addChild("item-not-found",
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/jingle/JingleInbandTransport.java b/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/jingle/JingleInbandTransport.java
index 04b225d0..e25f7e65 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/jingle/JingleInbandTransport.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/jingle/JingleInbandTransport.java
@@ -208,15 +208,15 @@ public class JingleInbandTransport extends JingleTransport {
established = true;
connected = true;
this.account.getXmppConnection().sendIqPacket(
- packet.generateRespone(IqPacket.TYPE_RESULT), null);
+ packet.generateResponse(IqPacket.TYPE_RESULT), null);
} else {
this.account.getXmppConnection().sendIqPacket(
- packet.generateRespone(IqPacket.TYPE_ERROR), null);
+ packet.generateResponse(IqPacket.TYPE_ERROR), null);
}
} else if (connected && payload.getName().equals("data")) {
this.receiveNextBlock(payload.getContent());
this.account.getXmppConnection().sendIqPacket(
- packet.generateRespone(IqPacket.TYPE_RESULT), null);
+ packet.generateResponse(IqPacket.TYPE_RESULT), null);
} else {
// TODO some sort of exception
}
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/stanzas/IqPacket.java b/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/stanzas/IqPacket.java
index 9eff4cbf..2481112b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/stanzas/IqPacket.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/xmpp/stanzas/IqPacket.java
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ public class IqPacket extends AbstractStanza {
}
}
- public IqPacket generateRespone(final int type) {
+ public IqPacket generateResponse(final int type) {
final IqPacket packet = new IqPacket(type);
packet.setTo(this.getFrom());
packet.setId(this.getId());