annotate PLUGIN_HOWTO @ 23545:faaa1b36a9b2

When connecting to MSN with the HTTP method, the payload length was not saved after processing a command. Since each command no longer sets the payload length in the MsnServConn explicitely, this broke things. Of course, command processing functions were never supposed to do that, so here's a fixed HTTP method that correctly saves the payload length. Fixes #6316.

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.