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I never liked randomly poking at offsets. Fortunately, I was able to find an old document by Siebe on the Internet Archive that explained (as best possible) the FT request Context field. Also, make the incoming request handling a bit stricter.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the
HOWTOs in the "Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.