Right! I forgot that file transfers as done by Google are handled as P2P by libjingle. Thanks!
BTW, is this why I can't exchange files between my Google Talk desktop client and other Google-compatible IM clients (Spark and Miranda)? IMs are flowing back and forth without any issues, but file transfers are not working (in Spark, I can initiate the file transfer, but it fails immediately). I don't know how Spark and Miranda handle file transfers, but I can guess they are using jingle which is incompatible with libjingle. Just a guess... OR, maybe it might have something to do with firewall-related issues: in order to make Spark and Miranda work on my machine at work, I had to configure them to use SSL port 443 instead of 5222/5223... I don't know yet how libjingle works (just yesterday, managed to build it by removing call-related stuff). Will figure it out... eventually... :-) Thank you! -----Original Message----- From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: google-talk-open <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 1:32 pm Subject: Re: Usage limits for custom clients On Nov 16, 12:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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=sib... > > My assumption is: if there are no limitations on the file size, the number of IMs should not be limited either. One thing to keep in mind.. file transfer size limits and message rate limiting might seem to be analogous, but that may not be the case. I believe that file transfers are set up in a "peer to peer" fashion, so the data doesn't pass through the google servers at all.. the google service is just used to negotiate the connection. The chat data, on the other hand, does go through google before coming out the other end. -- Matt ________________________________________________________________________ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
