Facebook protocol

[Robyer]

Myshor, hi, I think you're talking about "Dim idle contacts" option in clist_modern. It's not "away", but it's similar - it's just idle. Facebook gives me some "idle time" which is used for this. It may be time for which user has "minimized" FB app on mobile or something like that.

[PrzemekRyk]

Hi all!

Since yesterday my Miranda cannot connect with Facebook chat. It's only my problem, or did Facebook make some changes?

VersionInfo

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz [Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6] [DEP enabled] [2 CPUs]
Installed RAM: 8191 MBytes
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, 64-bit Service Pack 1 (build 7601)
Shell: explorer.exe
Internet Explorer: 9.11.9600.17239 (build 99600)
Administrator privileges: Yes
OS Languages: (UI | Locale (User/System)) : English/English | Polish/Polish [Polish, Tajik (Cyrillic), Persian, Vietnamese, Armenian, Azeri (Latin), Basque, Upper Sorbian, Macedonian (FYROM), Mongolian (Cyrillic), Tibetan, Welsh, Khmer, Galician, Filipino, Divehi, Dari, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified)]
Free disk space on Miranda partition: 92511 MBytes

Miranda path: D:\Przemysław Ryk\# Profile\Miranda
Miranda NG version: 0.95.3 alpha build #10188 [running inside WOW64]
Build time: 15 Aug 2014 5:37:42
Profile path: D:\Przemysław Ryk\# Profile\Miranda\Profiles\Maverick\Maverick.dat
Profile size: 37760,00 KBytes
Profile creation date: 6 Nov 2013 15:39:46
Language pack: No language pack installed
Service Mode: No

Active Plugins (50):
  AdvaImg.dll v.0.11.0.1 [3 Jan 2014 6:31:22] - Miranda image services
  AdvancedAutoAway.dll v.0.8.1.1 [30 Mar 2014 14:57:22] - Advanced Auto Away
  AVS.dll v.0.95.3.1 [3 Aug 2014 5:30:14] - Avatar service
  Clist_modern.dll v.0.9.1.1 [7 Aug 2014 5:37:42] - Modern contact list
  Cln_skinedit.dll v.0.0.0.4 [30 Nov 2013 6:31:28] - Skin editor for clist nicer
  Contacts.dll v.1.6.0.0 [3 Aug 2014 5:31:18] - Send/receive contacts
  CrashDumper.dll v.0.0.4.22 [6 Jul 2014 5:33:40] - Crash dumper
  CSList.dll v.0.1.1.0 [30 Mar 2014 14:56:52] - Custom status list
  DbEditorPP.dll v.3.2.0.1 [13 Aug 2014 5:34:14] - Database editor++
  Dbx_mmap.dll v.0.95.1.3 [15 Aug 2014 5:30:34] - Miranda NG mmap database driver
  Facebook.dll v.0.2.8.0 [13 Aug 2014 5:32:44] - Facebook RM
  Fingerprint.dll v.0.1.0.0 [13 Aug 2014 5:35:32] - Fingerprint NG
  GG.dll v.0.11.0.3 [3 Aug 2014 5:30:36] - Gadu-Gadu protocol
  GTalkExt.dll v.0.1.1.0 [25 Apr 2014 5:32:44] - GTalk Extension
  HistoryPP.dll v.1.5.1.5 [22 Jul 2014 11:48:20] - History++
  HistoryStats.dll v.0.2.0.3 [3 Aug 2014 5:40:16] - HistoryStats
  ICQ.dll v.0.11.2.5 [7 Aug 2014 5:31:56] - IcqOscarJ protocol
  IgnoreState.dll v.0.0.3.0 [13 Aug 2014 5:32:02] - Ignore state
  Import.dll v.0.95.3.1 [13 Aug 2014 5:30:32] - Import contacts and messages
  Jabber.dll v.0.11.0.4 [13 Aug 2014 5:31:30] - Jabber protocol
  KeepStatus.dll v.0.9.0.2 [16 Jun 2014 10:04:16] - Keep status
  MenuEx.dll v.1.3.0.10 [13 Aug 2014 5:32:02] - Menu item ext
  MobileState.dll v.0.0.1.4 [13 Aug 2014 5:34:58] - Mobile state
  ModernOpt.dll v.0.1.0.0 [6 Jul 2014 5:30:20] - ModernOpt
  Msg_Export.dll v.3.1.0.3 [28 Jun 2014 11:40:42] - Message export
  MSN.dll v.0.11.0.3 [3 Aug 2014 5:30:56] - MSN protocol
  mTextControl.dll v.0.8.0.1 [16 Jun 2014 10:03:50] - Miranda text control
  NewEventNotify.dll v.0.2.2.3 [16 Jun 2014 10:05:20] - NewEventNotify
  NewXstatusNotify.dll v.1.4.0.10 [7 Aug 2014 5:32:32] - xStatus notify
  NotesReminders.dll v.0.0.5.1 [7 Aug 2014 5:39:42] - Sticky Notes & Reminders
  PluginUpdater.dll v.0.1.2.2 [7 Aug 2014 5:39:04] - Plugin updater
  PManagerEx.dll v.0.0.0.5 [7 Aug 2014 5:39:06] - Miranda NG profile changer
  Popup.dll v.2.1.1.8 [3 Aug 2014 5:31:36] - Popup plus
  Rate.dll v.0.0.2.1 [14 Aug 2014 5:32:24] - Contact`s rate
  Restart.dll v.0.0.6.0 [17 Jul 2013 7:08:08] - Restart
  SeenPlugin.dll v.5.0.4.9 [15 Aug 2014 5:31:56] - Last seen
  SimpleAR.dll v.2.0.2.6 [30 Sep 2013 6:38:28] - Simple auto replier
  SimpleStatusMsg.dll v.1.9.0.4 [14 Aug 2014 5:36:52] - Simple status message
  SkypeClassic.dll v.0.0.0.54 [2 Aug 2014 16:26:42] - Skype protocol (Classic)
  SmileyAdd.dll v.0.2.3.17 [14 Aug 2014 5:32:34] - SmileyAdd
  StartupStatus.dll v.0.8.0.47 [30 Mar 2014 14:57:26] - StartupStatus
  TabSRMM.dll v.3.4.0.3 [13 Aug 2014 5:30:56] - TabSRMM
  Tipper.dll v.2.1.0.5 [7 Aug 2014 5:36:16] - Tipper
  Tlen.dll v.2.1.0.0 [6 Jul 2014 5:34:48] - Tlen protocol
  TopToolBar.dll v.0.8.0.3 [3 Aug 2014 5:32:22] - TopToolBar
  UInfoEx.dll v.0.8.5.0 [13 Aug 2014 5:32:38] - User info ext
  Variables.dll v.0.2.3.10 [3 Aug 2014 5:40:34] - Variables
  VersionInfo.dll v.1.5.0.3 [6 Jul 2014 5:33:46] - Version information
  WhenWasIt.dll v.0.3.3.5 [22 Jul 2014 5:32:14] - Birthday reminder
  ZeroNotify.dll v.0.0.0.5 [31 Dec 2013 6:33:16] - Zero notifications

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[Robyer]

PrzemekRyk, what does the login error say?
And can you login in your browser? If so, try to delete DeviceID key (in your facebook account branch) via Database Editor++

[PrzemekRyk]

PrzemekRyk, what does the login error say?
And can you login in your browser? If so, try to delete DeviceID key (in your facebook account branch) via Database Editor++

I haven't received any connection error message, and I could login with my browser.
Deleting DeviceID key with Database Editor solved the problem. Thank you very much!   

[Robyer]

We've updated plugin's wiki page with more info: http://miranda-ng.org/p/facebook

[xaos]

Excellent work on the protocol. Having the 'hidden' settings on the wiki page is most helpful. Thank-you.

Would it be possible to allow the "PollRate - buddy list and newsfeed parsing" to be set in minutes and/or hours? and possibly have separate buddy list and newsfeed parsing times?

As a very casual user of basically just the chat, and a very limited friends list, it just seems a little excessive to be checking/updating the friends list and the newsfeed on a minute by minute basis.

[Robyer]

You can disable loading newsfeeds completely. IMHO it doesn't makes sense to set it to update per hours or so.

Checking friends list few times in a minute is not so excessive (depends on number of your [online/mobile] friends, especially when you compare it with channel requests (= receiving messages, notifications, typing, etc.)...

I think I'll remove that hidden option completely later or provide a better solution/option for that.

[SpinalBlood]

Hi, I have a problem:

recently facebook keeps asking me captcha when I send links; when I'm using miranda, either it doesn't send the link, sends it (without sending it really), or even makes the online connection impossible, which I can fix by deleting the whole facebook "section/folder" on the database (maybe this " DeviceID key" value that is mentioned some posts above is related).

It's a problem because I can't send links that are completely safe, like youtube for example.

Since it's mainly a facebook problem, I'll contact them (I also tried to associate a mobile number but didn't work for now);
but has everyone else had this problem or it's something related to my account?
I don't think the miranda side can fix this problem, maybe it's possible to redirect to the captcha window somehow (although I understand that might be hard to manage or unpractical)?

[watcher]

SpinalBlood, already implemented in nightly builds.

[xaos]

You can disable loading newsfeeds completely. IMHO it doesn't makes sense to set it to update per hours or so.

Checking friends list few times in a minute is not so excessive (depends on number of your [online/mobile] friends, especially when you compare it with channel requests (= receiving messages, notifications, typing, etc.)...

I think I'll remove that hidden option completely later or provide a better solution/option for that.

Fair enuff. Thanks for the reply and the continued excellent work.

[p8R]

Hi everyone!
I have a problem connecting to Facebook chat. I've tried to delete DeviceID key using Database Editor++ plugin, but it did not help. I've tried both stable and alpha 64x versions of MirandaNG (on 2 computers) and in all cases I've received this same result: dialog box with the message "Something happend to Facebook. Maybe there was some major update so you should wait for an update".
At the same time I can login to chat both in the browser and in IM+ chat client on my mobile.
Did anyone noticed this same problem recently?

[Robyer]

p8R, Facebook change. Here is fixed development version (NOT for stable Miranda).

[p8R]

Thanks for Your answer - new plugin works fine :-)

[SpinalBlood]

SpinalBlood, already implemented in nightly builds.

Thanks, my bad, I was pretty sure I had the problem in development too, maybe my version was outdated

[watcher]

p8R, Facebook change. Here is fixed development version (NOT for stable Miranda).

For stable version users:

Backported to stable version too. Check updates with PluginUpdater, update and enjoy