Re: [JDEV] File transfers

[Michael Rothwell]

Title: RE: [JDEV] File transfers

I fail to understand why providing a facility for file transfers that can be enabled, disabled and limited server-side is a problem. So, jabber.org won't run it. Fine. I'm sure lots of other jabber servers administrators would like to provide file-transfer capability. If one existed on the server, it could be communicated to the client. If a client is trying to transfter to another client on a different server, then the servers negotiate acceptable file-transfer parameters (the minimum of each server's config for file size, timeout, etc), and communicate limitations back to the client, including "server-assisted file transfer not supported," at which point the clients could fall back to p2p.   I run a jabber server for my circle of friends. I would turn on file service if it existed. I would probably limit it to a specific list of userIDs and also limit bandwidth and transfers/hour. But I would turn it on.