On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Winfried Tilanus <[email protected]> wrote: > The bottom line is: for web based BOSH clients the DNS TXT record is > irrelevant.
No, it isn't. I'm not going to waste time arguing this further, however; it's not relevant to the discussion. > A fat client that can do a lookup over plain XMPP doesn't need to > connect using BOSH. So the only use case for discovering BOSH services, > a fat client that can't do plain XMPP for whatever reason, is locked out > by your proposal. Web clients are only one use case of BOSH. It's very important for mobile clients, which need to be able to seamlessly change IPs, tolerate lost TCP connections, and to disconnect while in low-power modes without terminating the XMPP session. BOSH provides all this. -- Glenn Maynard
