-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/3/13 5:02 PM, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 03.12.2013 23:55, schrieb Solomon Peachy: >> On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 11:03:27PM +0100, Alexander Holler >> wrote: > >>> So you think it is an elegant way that if a machine wants to >>> send 10 binary bytes to another machine, it is ok to put them >>> into mime64, pack that into XML, authorize and authenticate >>> with an XMPP-server. doing the necessary presence stuff to >>> finally send out a message or iq-stanza? >> >> It sounds like your objection is to the use of XMPP more so than >> its use of XML. If you don't want (or need) XMPP's feature set >> (discoverability, authentication, presence, security, etc) then >> why would you use it to begin with? If you do need that feature >> set, then you're going to have to deal with the complexity those >> features necessarily entail. > > In fact I like XMPP, mostly because it's an open standard and it > got many concepts right and worked out (specified) well. What I > don't like about XMPP is the XML part and the need for TCP but one > can't have everything.
It sounds like you might want something like stanza.io with WebSocket or BOSH. As a client-side API, neither XML nor TCP is absolutely necessary these days. Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSnu1lAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pSA0QAIYG6fXWNUc2DW1BQwFCrV97 9MsJZcdpiwCSq/fvEsr6ikTAd+/GHqrj+xREc4XIj0F4CqWqk7zjTQvIM1RQwB7Z azIWQWj6m78YzBiDIjSP71SBj8teXDK23LEgXXOag4Odl1MmI+hatKNDqKqtNPwW j21G5v/l9VVaW2YkklfW2Q5a7CX0FnEsJcz4+Dvao3aDiQHE3RxG+JKrMeJ8wuCe Yh6VnSe9Vp//ODOn6bsUikI9R0v1yNre7zJzQkvXLRpwdWsjH0MK8ydTil6xWwGf SOwCKJNpBbf7gQItydYT90VxE8ct+uulj1pzhu1vUcwyOtfNuXksmLs3bbp5nBIp ddVV7CUccLyzrLrmZxjDj8C4fEV3YoL7IFqpOjM75EJNTEA/sV2JClol/rwjbWqx d3qbTWKBPj6U06f21e1Q096OIjz8fESft0EjJPMBVCyk69xRU29IVStyYmfizpCG 8A5rKLAW95ZfDjdW+nxt2G+ImKUnKp82aTI7tYZorybxOgEGFn5zDPcVEOL44tTR iqj5nwurN+KIP2c8s4Boq+LaAFuKDuCzgP8trOZFJ3vkbsLlc2TWNbI0OUb7yKsx UjZuK83NN+5T2bnXYv7JAG65Pe1rujvKWT/LizpqYUJ28HroMSpq3btypghCsf6q 1yWfDynCBu9bfPDqmrGo =x+Vu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
