Upstream report: https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/16451 There may or may not be a new release for Pidgin in the near future, so patch it would probably make a user or few happy here as well. Note that the upstream patch in the mentioned ticket contains the ID for WLM 2012, which works for some users while not for others. The one used in the attached patch here has the ID for WLM 2009, which may work better (at least for some, it indeed does). Thanks! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install: net-im/pidgin 2. Log in using a Microsoft account. Actual Results: The contact list can not be retrieved, and chatting with other users is not possible. Expected Results: Contact list is retrieved, and chatting made possible.
Created attachment 389200 [details, diff] Update the MSN application ID to fix contact-list retrieval.
Meh. They seem to have already blocked off the WLM 2009 ID as well, so either the WLM 2012 or Skype ID must be used, but these wont work for some users (the contact-list will be retrieved, but they will show as being off-line, and /some/ messages will not go through to the contacts). One might guess there is no long-term fix, but only time can really tell. Might be good to wait on this for a little while at least, but I'll attach a new patch with either of the two IDs currently known to be working.
Comment on attachment 389200 [details, diff] Update the MSN application ID to fix contact-list retrieval. >--- a/libpurple/protocols/msn/contact.h >+++ b/libpurple/protocols/msn/contact.h >@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ typedef enum > #include "session.h" > #include "soap.h" > >-#define MSN_APPLICATION_ID "CFE80F9D-180F-4399-82AB-413F33A1FA11" >+#define MSN_APPLICATION_ID "484AAC02-7F59-41B7-9601-772045DCC569" > > #define MSN_CONTACT_SERVER "local-bay.contacts.msn.com"
Created attachment 389244 [details, diff] Update the MSN application ID to WLM 2012. Apologies for the extra comment! Guess I had to confirm what that button actually does. =]
Version 2.10.11 is out and about, containing the fix for this and more. Changing this bug for version bump instead might be okay? (Going fer it!) Tested renaming 2.10.10 ebuild to 2.10.11 and it seems to work so far.
+*pidgin-2.10.11 (25 Nov 2014) + + 25 Nov 2014; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> +pidgin-2.10.11.ebuild: + Version bump (bug #529082). Added python-3.4 support (bug #530308). +
