I would encourage everyone considering using JEP-0025 to review the
security discussion I carried out with the JEP authors on the Jabber
Council mailing list. I do not want to detract from the usefulness of
Jabber, Inc.'s web client, but there are some potential security problems
with the protocol which you should at least be aware of. My main concerns
are laid out in:

http://mailman.jabber.org/pipermail/council/2002-April/000245.html

-Mike



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It may support the proxy trick - basically you just tell your HTTP proxy
to connect to port 5222, say its a really long HTTP document to your
proxy and start tunneling data that way. The JEP-25 method has the
benefits of actually using port 80 and not requiring the long-lived HTTP
connection.

-David Waite

Dave wrote:

>Doesn't Jarl also support that?
>Ryan???
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>Dave Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>>But there is neither code for the open source jabberd nor an open source
>>>client that supports this access method?
>>>
>>Exodus supports HTTP polling using the protocol layed out in JEP-25.
There
>>is no open-source implementation of that JEP though :(
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>>Peter M.
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