Re: [JDEV] GZipping Jabber Messages

2002-01-05 Thread Michael F Lin
What is the nature of the data you are transferring? -Mike "Michael F.

Re: [JDEV] GZipping Jabber Messages

2002-01-05 Thread Michael F. March
After doing a longer session (about 20 minutes), I am getting about 80% in both directions now.. > Doing compression with SSH I am getting about 70% compression > outbound and 80% compression inbound.. > > I have not investigated how OpenSSH implements compression on > the TCP stream though so I

Re: [JDEV] GZipping Jabber Messages

2002-01-05 Thread Michael F. March
Doing compression with SSH I am getting about 70% compression outbound and 80% compression inbound.. I have not investigated how OpenSSH implements compression on the TCP stream though so I am not sure how great of gauge this is.. > Update. I am finding that you can get better compression ratios

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2002-01-05 Thread EdE
hi folks, we are three people and would like to contribute some code to the jabber community. our idea is to establish filesharing over jabber. we do this for a project in school which will start monday (7.1.2), from that day on we have only three weeks to get it done. i talked about our plans

Re: [JDEV] jabber/im application idea

2002-01-05 Thread dlb
There's an available public storage mechanism which could probably be adapted for this purpose. Arbitrary XML can be stored within the roster of a user under a custom namespace , this is publically accessible via an IQ 'get' to the namespace and data element. The implementation is pretty close to

Re: [JDEV] jabber/im application idea

2002-01-05 Thread Jan Peter Hecking
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 09:38:49AM -0500, Nigel Kerr wrote: > i've always wanted something i'll loosely call "annotations on the > web", a means by which i and other users can create annotations for > different URLs, and be able to share these annotations amongst > ourselves. there have been a va

Re: [JDEV] GZipping Jabber Messages

2002-01-05 Thread Michael F Lin
Update. I am finding that you can get better compression ratios, up to around 57%, by maintaining the LZ dictionary between packets. Also this reduces the processor hit asymptotically (but still quite nonzero) with more packets sent along. This technique raises still other problems, though, most

Re: [JDEV] GZipping Jabber Messages

2002-01-05 Thread David Waite
Ignoring computational costs, the biggest technical hurdle will probably be that, because of compression, the boundary between two XML Packets is not guaranteed to be the boundary between bytes in the resulting compressed stream. Messages might not be interpreted until more data arrives, and thus

Re: [JDEV] 1.4.1: dnsrv.c:143 dnsrv: Read error on coprocess(1): 1 Operation not permitted

2002-01-05 Thread Michael Rothwell
I tracked the problem down to aimtrans.so ... and running it in a separate process (see http://www.saint-andre.com/jabber/xml/) solves the problem. Perhaps jabber.xml allow one to specify that a service gets its own process, and jabberd would then handle creation of the extra process(es)...

Re: [JDEV] jabber/im application idea

2002-01-05 Thread Nigel Kerr
hi Sebastiaan, hi all, Quoth "Sebastiaan 'CBAS' Deckers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Would that be like a message board that attaches itself to websites? > (perhaps visualized with a browser plugin) this could certainly be one usage scenario of the kind of annotations i'm thinking of, but i

Re: [JDEV] Installing ICQV7-T

2002-01-05 Thread Vyt
On Sat, 05 Jan 2002 02:55:58 + "Amarnath Yara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I have been trying to install the new icqv7-t on redhat linux 7.2 > and getting the error message "You won't be able to compile the ICQv7-t > unless you specify the path to jabber source (headers)". > > The

Re: [JDEV] GZipping Jabber Messages

2002-01-05 Thread Michael F Lin
Hi Adam, I looked over some of the DotGNU mailing list archives at the discussion you are referring to. One person from DotGNU says --- At the end of the day, it is easier to just gzip it and forget about the problem. No data loss, and roughly the same level of compaction. Highly redundant dat

RE: [JDEV] GZipping Jabber Messages

2002-01-05 Thread Michael F Lin
We could use ASN.1 to rewrite the XML markup in a terser format, and probably we'd do about as well as gzip for much less processing power. This would do darn well for presence tags which tend to be highly regular. But ASN.1 wouldn't really help us for arbitrary message or iq payloads which are h

Re: [JDEV] GZipping Jabber Messages

2002-01-05 Thread Michael F Lin
The RC4 encryption that SSL can (I think usually?) use is much less processor intensive than compression. I don't know how it compares to slower algorithms like 3DES or IDEA, but I would not be suprised if RC4 is several orders of magnitude faster than gzip (LZ77+Huffman). Disregarding one-time i

[JDEV] Installing ICQV7-T

2002-01-05 Thread Amarnath Yara
Hi all, I have been trying to install the new icqv7-t on redhat linux 7.2 and getting the error message "You won't be able to compile the ICQv7-t unless you specify the path to jabber source (headers)". The "README" says that configure demands to provide path to jabber-1.4.2-test sources but h