Thanks a lot.
I found Google's reply to a FAQ regarding file transfer limitations: http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=44256&ctx=sibling My assumption is: if there are no limitations on the file size, the number of IMs should not be limited either. As for the IMs frequency (IMs per second), I'll just do my experiments when I come to the testing phase. Worst case scenario, if there's a limit on the number of IMs per second, I'll just have to programmatically monitor how many messages have been sent in the last second time span, and wait for a second or so until the next message in a queue gets sent. A bit more work for me, but not a problem at all from a technical point of view. It would affect scalability, but - most likely - there's no such limit. Once again, thank you very much, Matt! BTW, AOL has a limit on the number of IMs (in addition to the ones I mentioned before): only up to 50 IMs/sec (theoretically; but they've had a technical issue in the servers, so in fact the limit was just?1 IM per 2 seconds: http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/articles.php?boardId=561961&articleId=657&func=6&channel=AIM+Message+Boards&filterRead=false&filterHidden=true&filterUnhidden=false ). Ain't that lovely?!.. No good for a production app at all. ...not to mention an extremely frustrating limitation on the AIM?message length. -----Original Message----- From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: google-talk-open <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 1:54 pm Subject: Re: Usage limits for custom clients If there is a limit, it's not readily available in the documentation. If anything, I would think that a user would be limited in their rate of sending messages (e.g., 10 msgs/sec might get you blocked). Anyone else have more info? On Nov 14, 6:32 pm, JabberFan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any usage limits imposed on custom clients connecting to > Google Talk? > > For example, AOL enforces usage limits for custom bots developed with > AIM SDK as: up to 15,000 IMs/day, up to 150,000 IMs/month. > Anything over the limit, - and those IMs will be blocked. > > Is there something like that for GTalk clients? > > Also, what about file transfer? Any usage limits on the number and/or > size and/or total size of files transferred per day/month? > > Thanks. ________________________________________________________________________ Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- Unlimited storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-talk-open" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-talk-open?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
