Cross-posting to sjig:
On 1 Nov 2006, at 16:45, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
Scott Robinson wrote:
What is the proper method of performing a ping across a client XMPP
connection. That is, from a sever's perspective, if a client
mysteriously and unexpectedly drops off the Internet, it won't
know it
until the TCP connection times out.
Most servers use "whitespace pings". It would be good for us to
document
that method in an XMPP extension.
Perhaps we could also revisit the ping/ack (J|X)EP, as the whitespace
ping doesn't really address the issue as we might desire?
/K
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Kevin Smith
Psi XMPP Client Project Leader (http://psi-im.org)
