Bug 99435 - [liboscar] icq is shown as online, although it lost connection to the server
Summary: [liboscar] icq is shown as online, although it lost connection to the server
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kopete
Classification: Applications
Component: ICQ and AIM Plugins (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kopete Developers
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Reported: 2005-02-15 11:07 UTC by S. Burmeister
Modified: 2005-04-15 17:41 UTC (History)
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Description S. Burmeister 2005-02-15 11:07:54 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.92)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

Sometimes my connection is "a bit" instable. So what I see is that MSN loses connection and goes offline. ICQ sometimes does not go offline, i.e. the icon is shown as online. Yet, new people signing in are not announced or displayed, same for status changing. One has to go offline manually and then go online again.

Expected behaviour would be to either re-connect automatically, or to go offline.
Comment 1 Gustavo Pichorim Boiko 2005-02-15 11:47:14 UTC 
Which kopete version are you using?
Comment 2 S. Burmeister 2005-02-15 12:33:45 UTC 
> Which kopete version are you using?

The one included in beta 2, i.e. the new ICQ plugin, as far as I understood 
it.
Comment 3 Matt Rogers 2005-02-15 19:37:45 UTC 
go tell AOL to implement proper keepalive for their protocol. Not much we can really do about this at the moment. The whole reason MSN works is because ping packets are sent back and forth between client and server about once a minute. None of the other protocols have that.
Comment 4 Jason Keirstead 2005-02-15 19:40:38 UTC 
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 2:37 pm, Matt Rogers wrote:
> The whole reason MSN works is because ping packets are sent back and forth
> between client and server about once a minute. None of the other protocols
> have that.

IRC does :P

At least on some servers anyways.
Comment 5 MaxAuthority 2005-03-02 01:21:14 UTC 
I am not totally sure, if this is related to this bug, but since the new icq plugin from beta2 (and now rc1), I _sometimes_ keep seeing other people online, although I disconnected/reconnected manually and I am sure (from checking with centericq or asking the person by phone) that he is offline. Then, when I send them messages, they occasionally get lost, or when other people send messages to me, I never receive them :(

Apart from that the new icq plugin is much faster, but just not useable for me until I am sure that no message I send or get are lost :(
Comment 6 Dominik Karall 2005-03-31 12:33:36 UTC 
I think this bug needs to have higher priority, cause if the connection drops the online status of people in the contact list isn't the real one and there is no way to get it in the right way, even a reconnect does not solve the problem.

So it is really unuseable for many users.
Comment 7 Andrei Slavoiu 2005-04-04 14:59:19 UTC 
This is not just an ICQ problem, since I installed KDE 3.4.0 Kopete disconnects silently from the Yahoo protocol also. And this is a regresion, because version 0.9.2 used to tell me when it lost connection.
Comment 8 Matt Rogers 2005-04-15 17:41:29 UTC 
should be fixed for KDE 3.4.1. probably due to the unknown wire format bug.