Fabio Forno wrote: > XMPP Extensions Editor wrote: >> The XMPP Extensions Editor has received a proposal for a new XEP. >> >> Title: Component Connections >> >> Abstract: This document specifies a standards-track XMPP protocol >> extension that enables server components to connect to XMPP servers. >> >> URL: http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/component.html > > I see this xep is very basic, concerning stream establishment and > hostname binding.
As a first step on which everyone can agree, yes. Additional features will be defined in other specs that layer on top of this. > This is ok if we see a component just a special xmpp > node, having few privileges (a fqdn, no bandwidth restrictions...), but > it's limiting if we want to interact more deeply with the server and > have direct control on stanza routing. Correct. > For example previous (not > official) component protocols with jabberd (1.x) had a <log/> option for > receiving all packets, and a <route/> stanza (jabberd 2.x) for advanced > routing. > At present if you need to implement such features with available servers > (I know pretty well the architecture of Openfire, but I think the others > behave the same) you need to write components as server plugins, not as > external components. This is limiting since they need to share the same > host and process of the server, hindering scalability, and you are > forced to use the same language of the server. > What I'd like to see is some standard mechanism for external components > in order to: > - register packet listeners > - register packet filters > - arbitrary routing packets > - access to the user base and active sessions > > In this way we could write cross-server components with auditing, > logging or other esoteric capabilities ;) > > I think this could be implemented over this xep, writing one more xep > specifying some <iq/> namespace for those operations. Is there any > server or component developer interested in joining me for identifying > the requirements and for writing such xep? Have at it! :) /psa
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