-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Mullins wrote: >>From the very first day I wrote a Jabber packet, I was looking for a > Ping command. I would still like to see one.
+1 Coming from an IRC devel background, I also miss "ping". You can't use TCP timeouts because they are very very very late. The faster TCP timeout would be about 20 minutes. I'm a bit worried about CPU/bandwidth explosión, nevertheless. And mobile bandwidth, that pay per byte. > > I usually end up using IQ:Time, or IQ:Version as a ping. Almost > everything supports this - clients, servers, bots, etc. > > I would still love to see IQ:Ping. > > -- > Chris Mullins > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Peter Saint-Andre > Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:45 AM > To: Jabber software development list > Subject: Re: [jdev] XMPP Ping method? > > 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. > > Peter > - -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argo.es/~jcea/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ jabber / xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBRUp+P5lgi5GaxT1NAQK+dwP5ATBJ7I26V8sUAkn33UU+ar522QUmylTm L2s5mEgrlOUJUMwxT85KyDJtM2ACc5YWeTupe/oO8o5l7O8Wr2dTRCS2TVqasGRb RyyiD2arV+lFM/bnZtXbvHHnB0wnIuKXiN8dXhc0t6uvqKZkTt6I7KkHkDIhff4h hhOKrhnm5rQ= =g9tW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
