AIM Stability

Yikes.  =/  I'll see if I can figure out a way to make twisted do what AOL
wants it do to.  Or.. come up with something else to fix the issue.  ;) 
If you haven't already, would you mind submitting a jabberstudio bug
report?

Daniel

-- 
"The most addictive drug in the world is music."
     - The Lost Boyz

> Ok, here's what I've found.
>
> There's evidence that I was right in my suspicions that AOL was
> disconnecting due to breaking the rate limiting. Basically, as soon as
> PyAIM-t completes the sign on process, Psi seems to request info on every
> user signed on all <at> once. PyAIM-t dutifully passes these requests on to
> AOL, which triggers the disconnect.
>
> Unfortunately I don't think twister considers ratelimiting <at> all, and so
> there's no really good solution to this problem. The Right Way to fix it
> would be to back off on transmission whenever AOL tells us to. My quick
> and dirty hack was to do a sleep(random()*30) to spread the away message
> requests over the course of thirty seconds. It keeps me online, but...
>
> Anyway, so this is a bug (well, deficiency) in twister, and it will bite
> anyone with a large buddy list with lots of people online when they try to
> sign on.
>
> ~Chris
>
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Daniel Henninger wrote:
>
>> Odd, I've never had these problems.  I also have been made aware of folk
>> who are running this transport live for a while now and haven't had any
>> problems like this.  (the not alerting users is definitely a problem I
>> need to address though, right now PyAIM-t is mighty silent about
>> problems,
>> except in the logs)  Typically folk with misconfigured firewalls run
>> into
>> this type problem, but... ?
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> --
>> "The most addictive drug in the world is music."
>>     - The Lost Boyz
>>
>>> I'm finding that PyAIM-t just won't stay connected for extended periods
>>> of
>>> time. In fact, <at> the moment it signs off immediately after signing on.
>>> None of this is conveyed to the user, though. As far as a user of the
>>> transport can tell he's still online and everything's fine.
>>>
>>> I've taken to keeping a copy of Gaim running signed on to a different
>>> account just to see when I'm actually online and not.
>>>
>>> Is this a known issue? Becuase it's obviously a fairly serious flaw...
>>>
>>> ~Chris
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