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mod_http_xep227: Add support for import via APIs rather than direct store manipulation In particular this transitions PEP nodes and data to be imported via mod_pep's APIs, fixing issues with importing at runtime while PEP data may already be live in RAM. Next obvious candidate for this approach is rosters, so clients get immediate roster pushes and other special handling (such as emitting subscribes to reach the desired subscription state).
author Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com>
date Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:01:18 +0000
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labels:
- 'Stage-Alpha'
summary: 'XEP-0191: Simple Communications Blocking support'
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Introduction
============

Privacy lists are a widely implemented protocol for instructing your
server on blocking communications with selected users and services.

However experience has shown that the power and flexibility of the
rule-based system that privacy lists allow is very often much more
complex than the user needs, and that in most cases a simple block on
all communications to or from a list of specified JIDs would suffice.

Such a protocol would also allow much simpler user interface design than
the current attempts at full privacy list interfaces.

Details
=======

Simple Communications Blocking was developed to solve the above issues,
and allows the client to manage a simple list of blocked JIDs. This
plugin implements support for that protocol in Prosody, however the
actual blocking is still managed by mod\_privacy, so it is **required**
for that plugin to be loaded (this may change in future).

An XEP-0191 implementation without dependency on mod\_privacy is
available in Prosody 0.10 as [mod\_blocklist][doc:modules:mod_blocklist].

Configuration
=============

Simply ensure that mod\_privacy (or [mod\_privacy\_lists] in 0.10+) and
mod\_blocking are loaded in your modules\_enabled list:

        modules_enabled = {
                        -- ...
                        "privacy", -- or privacy_lists in Prosody 0.10+
                        "blocking",
                        -- ...

Compatibility
=============

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  0.10   Works but will conflict with mod\_blocklist
  0.9    Works
  0.8    Works
  0.7    Works
  0.6    Doesn't work
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