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List:       pidgin-support
Subject:    Re: Facebook chat past convos
From:       Steve Daniel <stevedaniel4835 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-04-27 4:05:52
Message-ID: CAPS33uyWpZUnYMpAXftPiriNuxY7tdeT5PMSa=-xQjhZt+J5Hg () mail ! gmail ! com
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I didn't see anything on the developer's chat page about a replacement for
xmpp. I suspect someone will try to reverse engineer messenger's protocol,
and I hope they succeed. But even if they get something workable, it still
won't be as good as an api provided by and openly documented by Facebook.
On Apr 26, 2015 10:59 PM, "Faust *" <hunter-t1000@yandex.ru> wrote:

> Hi. I read your correspondence and I was interested in the question. Will
> there be another Facebook API to send messages to third-party programs?
>
> 27.04.2015, 04:56, "Steve Daniel" <stevedaniel4835@gmail.com>:
>
> Yes I actually read about that while I was researching. Vendor lock-in at
> its best.
> On Apr 26, 2015 6:52 PM, "David Woolley" <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
> wrote:
>
> On 26/04/15 21:00, Steve Daniel wrote:
>
> n facebook messenger, I can scroll up to see my past conversations with
> any user. I can do this even with a fresh install of messenger, so the
> history is obviously stored on facebook's servers, and not just
> locally.  Is there any way I can do the same in pidgin, or is it a
> proprietary facebook messenger api?
>
>
> According to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat Facebook XMPP
> support has, at most, four days left to go, so it it is pretty pointless
> worrying about what Pidgin can or cannot do using the XMPP support.
>
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<p dir="ltr">I didn&#39;t see anything on the developer&#39;s chat page about a \
replacement for xmpp. I suspect someone will try to reverse engineer messenger&#39;s \
protocol, and I hope they succeed. But even if they get something workable, it still \
won&#39;t be as good as an api provided by and openly documented by Facebook. </p> \
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 26, 2015 10:59 PM, &quot;Faust *&quot; &lt;<a \
href="mailto:hunter-t1000@yandex.ru">hunter-t1000@yandex.ru</a>&gt; wrote:<br \
type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 \
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><span>Hi</span>. <span>I \
read</span> <span>your correspondence</span> <span>and</span> <span>I was interested \
in the question.</span> <span>Will there be</span> <span>another Facebook</span> \
<span>API</span> <span>to send messages to</span> <span>third-party</span> \
<span>programs? <img src="cid:smile28"><br></span></div></div><div>  \
</div><div>27.04.2015, 04:56, &quot;Steve Daniel&quot; &lt;<a \
href="mailto:stevedaniel4835@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">stevedaniel4835@gmail.com</a>&gt;:</div><blockquote \
type="cite"><p>Yes I actually read about that while I was researching. Vendor lock-in \
at its best.</p><div>On Apr 26, 2015 6:52 PM, &quot;David Woolley&quot; &lt;<a \
href="mailto:forums@david-woolley.me.uk" \
target="_blank">forums@david-woolley.me.uk</a>&gt; wrote:<br \
type="attribution"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex">On 26/04/15 21:00, Steve Daniel wrote:<br><blockquote \
style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">n facebook \
messenger, I can scroll up to see my past conversations with<br> any user. I can do \
this even with a fresh install of messenger, so the<br> history is obviously stored \
on facebook&#39;s servers, and not just<br> locally.   Is there any way I can do the \
same in pidgin, or is it a<br> proprietary facebook messenger api?<br> \
</blockquote><br> According to <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat" \
target="_blank">https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat</a> Facebook XMPP support \
has, at most, four days left to go, so it it is pretty pointless worrying about what \
Pidgin can or cannot do using the XMPP \
support.</blockquote></div>,<p>_______________________________________________<br><a \
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