On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:59:02PM -0500, Julian Missig wrote: > Yes, every single person talking about file transfer stuff is talking > about the same thing. What everyone wants is more permanent caching of > files... something like webdav. I really feel it's a waste of mental
Which is not necessarily true. If I want to distribute some kind of files to a lot of people, I upload it to my website. The file transfer feature I demand from a decent IM system is filling the gap between cut and paste to the message window and sending an email with an attachment. I want to be able to send a simple image or sound file to the person I am talking with, and I don't want to use a completely different protocol to do this. I don't care what kind of handshake happens between jabber clients. I want to send a file to the person I am talking to. Period. It may use FTP or HTTP internally, or it may use something completely different. Please don't try to invent every single RFC from scratch within jabber. There are perfectly good prototcols around on the internet which do their job better than jabber can ever do. Concentrate on situations where direct XML routing is better than exisiting protocols. Jan _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
