> Take a look at iChat / Trillian / Miranda, that use ZeroConf networking to > discover other Jabber clients on the network.
Hi again, I accidenlty wrote to one person, so here are the mails (useful I think) ************** Thanks for the suggestion. If you have little time : your suggestion opened others questions :-) Those IM use zeroconf to find other clients : finally they connect to each other instead of using a server? I was thinking of using multicast (through a lib since I'm not a good network programmer), but do you think using zeroconf will be better ? Isn't multicast is suitted to a lan chat ? (a lot of users in the same room, it seems to me more simple) And at last but not least question : Can I use jabber to communicate from client to client? (simple encapsulation of data, but I wanted to use a standardized encapsulation) Thanks again *********** answer from Tijl Houtbeckers *********** Clients connect directly to each other. The protocol is Jabber based but not officially documented anywhere. ZeroConf uses multicasting (it's multicasting DNS). There are plenty of libs for this. > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:10:49 +0200, mame louk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi to all, > > > > I am currently thinking how to develop a network chat client, like > > Borgchat (free, but not open & only on windows). > > > > I was wondering if I can use the jabber protocol, without server ? > > Using multicast, with the ivy bus for example, & using jabber for > > formatting the output data. > > > > Is this right ? (a good idea ?) > > Can I do this with any jabber lib? > > > > Any help will be very appreciated, > > > > Regards, > > > > Mehdi > > > > >
