On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 23:49 -0800, Elliot F. wrote: > Google talk has a persistent connection between the client and the > server. With a persistent connection, pushing data is pretty easy.
We have to use a persistant connection as most GSM networks use private address space and NAT. This means we can't just throw a UDP packet at the phone. IMAP is an asyncronous protocol. The purpose of the IDLE command is JUST to spot the IMAP server tearing down the connection. IDLE is not a poll, if configured correctly the IMAP server will just spit out notifications on the existing TCP stream as and when mails come in. Red _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
