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Introduction

Shields.xml contains the Shields Configuration Data, and was first seen in MSNP11.

It is provided by the GCF command.

Content

If this is in MSNP13 or above, this element will be contained in the following:

<Policies><Policy type="SHIELDS"><config>...</config></Policy></Policies>

Otherwise, it is prefixed with the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

config

The root element of the document. Nothing special. Contains the <shield> and <block> elements.

shield

Contains many <cli> elements.

cli

This empty attribute has 5 parameters:

maj: The major version that this block applies to.
min: The minor version that this block applies to.
minbld: Lowest bound of builds that this block applies to.
maxbld: Highest bound of builds that this block applies to
deny: What features are disabled:
- SharingFolders: Sharing Folders. Since MSNP13.
- protocolhandler: Unknown.
- dynamicbackgrounds: Dynamic Backgrounds (Flash chat backgrounds).
- phone: Calling features. Since MSNP13.
- voiceim: Voice Clips.
- camera: Video Conversations.
- audio: Audio Conversations.
- filexfer: File transfer.
- hotlinks: Web links. If this feature is blocked URLs sent in the chat will not be formatted as links.
- ddp: Dynamic Display Pictures (Flash avatars).
- winks: Winks (Flash full chat window animations).

block

Since MSNP12.

Contains either <hashes> or <regexp> elements.

hashes

This element blocks file hashes from being sent.

TODO: Does anyone have an example of things that go here?

regexp

This element contains multiple <imtext> elments

imtext

This empty element only has the value attribute, which is the regular expression to search instant message text for. This attribute is base64-encoded.

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