On July 16, 2002 02:02 am, you wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:35:08PM -0400, Kriggs wrote: > > So it is the client's job to talk directly to the autoupdate service > > provider? > > yes, the autoupdate-agent has no way of knowing which clients are in use > everywhere in the world. > > also it is a much better thing to send the autoupdate request through > jabber than to poll a website or something, as the client has already > made it's connection to jabber server, you have less work and more > reliable way of passing on the request.
Hmmm. Maybe I should ask my question a different way. How does the server a client is connected to know that there is a new version available? Does the server query some database when the client asks? From what I understand, the server DOES have something to do with this... _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
