On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Robin Redeker wrote:
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:22:33PM +0000, Nathan Fritz wrote:
I don't see this as being the client's job.
[.snip.]
I don't believe that the client should take it upon itself to nag
about presence, as presence is high traffic enough as it is.
I indeed agree with that. Having clients polling is very undesireable
w.r.t. bandwidth and traffic.
Either I could treat the existing presence push mechanism as being
partially broken, poll occasionally, and have reasonably updated
information and, or I could rely completely on the existing presence push
mechanism, and deal with complaints of, say, a mail notification bot
filling up an offline message store, or a pretty web presence bot giving
the wrong information for hours on end.
In this particular situation (mail notification bot), I personally prefer
the fewer complaints option, since the poll traffic isn't leaving the
local server.
I like the <iq/> option that JD supplied.
--
Bruce Campbell.
Of course, I'll argue the other way when it comes to chat clients ;)
