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EionRobb / funyahoo-plusplus

A replacement Yahoo prpl (protocol plugin) for Pidgin/libpurple
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Retrieve Yahoo username instead of raw ID or alias #37

Closed rensdewolf closed 8 years ago

rensdewolf commented 8 years ago

Would it be possible to retrieve the username of a buddy? At the moment all you see is the friendly alias or the 26 character raw ID. Or is it not possible with this 'new' protocol?

dequis commented 8 years ago

Yeah, not possible as far as i know. @EionRobb what do you think?

EionRobb commented 8 years ago

Only thing I can think of is including the email/yid/phone in the buddy tooltip if the info is provided to us

dequis commented 8 years ago

if the info is provided to us

Yeah, that "if" is the problem. I don't think i've seen it.

EionRobb commented 8 years ago

It shows up if that's the method you've added someone, in order to link between email/yid/phone and their guid

rensdewolf commented 8 years ago

My question was about someone else sending you a message. Now all you see is his/her name, initials and guid. I have looked at the websocket (push) messages and did not find anything else in there, so I guess this issue can be closed. (It seems Yahoo makes it easy to impersonate someone as you can easily set your name to anything and it's unlikely people will know or ask for the guid or yahoo id to verify who their talking to. Oh well...)