Generally, if you want acks, use IQ. If you just want to blast out some information, use message. In your case, IQ seems more appropriate.
Roberto Ostinelli wrote: > thank you anders, > > i wouldn't have even asked this question if i hadn't seen in the xep-0004 > protocol http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0004.html#protocol that: > > "The <x/> element qualified by the 'jabber:x:data' namespace SHOULD be > included either directly as a first-level child of a <message/> stanza or as > a second-level child of an <iq/> stanza (where the first-level child is an > element qualified by a "wrapper" namespace); see also the restrictions > enumerated below." > > seems logical to me to use an <iq/> stanza, however i thought i might have > missed a point somewhere.. just wondering :) > > r. > > > -----Messaggio originale----- > Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di > anders conbere > Inviato: venerdì 28 marzo 2008 18.24 > A: [email protected] > Oggetto: Re: [Social] <iq/> or <message/> on api-like functionality over > XMPP > > I'm not an expert, but it seems to be based on the spec that as long as your > queries to the client (C1) are implementing a get or a set then the probably > belong in IQ stanzas. > > ~ Anders > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Roberto Ostinelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> hi all, >> >> just curious about a 'best practice' on using xmpp as transport for data. >> not sure if this is the kind of discussions we can have here, if not, >> please do ignore this post which will not be followed on. >> >> we are using an xmpp server S1 to handle all a-sync an sync >> communication between two XMPP clients, C1 and C2. >> >> the flow is as follows: C1 sends data to C2 through S1, and C2 has to >> reply to C1 wether the transmitted data is coherent with a series of >> computation that can only be handled by C2. >> >> were this to be a client-server case, i would use a custom namespace >> on a <iq/> stanza [for request-response functionality]. however, >> since the flow of this communication is C1-S1-C2-S1-C1, would you >> recommend still using <iq/> or a <message/> stanza instead? >> >> thank you. >> >> r. >> >> > -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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