Note that gnutls is picky in regard to what it accepts as the server name - it
MUST be a domain name. IP addresses are not supported according to the
documentation.
Hence, filter out IP addresses and hope that whatever is not recognized as
such an address is actually a domain name. This will probably fail for more
exotic addresses (especially in IPv6 realm), but wiring up a full-blown parser
is too much effort and SSL plugins are not part of purple-3 anyway.
ItispossibletogetGtk2-Perltoworkwithlibpurple's Perl API, however you must not load the module with @c use, but rather with @c require. Keep this in mind if you would like to use other perl modules that are dynamically loaded. You can avoid the problem by always using @c require instead of @c use.
Inordertousethissimpleplugin,savethescripttextinafilewitha@c.plextensioninyour~/.purple/pluginsdirectory.AfterrestartingPidgin,youshouldseetheplugin("Perl Test Plugin")listedinthepluginlistunder"Tools -> Plugins".Toviewthedebugoutput,makesureyourunPidginfromtheconsolewiththe'-d'flagoropentheDebugWindowwhichisavailableinthe"Help"menu.Whenyoucheckthecheckboxnexttheplugin,youshouldseeamessageappearintheDebugWindow(orconsole);similarly,whenyouuncheckthecheckboxyoushouldseeanothermessageappear.Youhavenowcreatedaframeworkthatwillallowyoutocreatealmostanykindoflibpurplepluginyoucanimagine.