On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The current situation is a mess. While XEP-198 has a high XEP number, the > > concept is many years old, and when it was first introduced there was > little > > interest and the council rejected the proposal. It didn't see the light > > until seventy-four XEPs after BOSH, and during that period developers > > realized that maintaining TCP connectivity can be a problem and that BOSH > > solves the problem. Complete disaster. Now there is interest in promoting > > HTTP as the best transport for XMPP? How in the holy hell did this > > happen? :) > > It didn't. :) >
I think it happened because until recently nobody really tried to use XMPP over unreliable channels, an now we're using the only approach that is working bye -- Fabio Forno, Ph.D. Bluendo srl http://www.bluendo.com jabber id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
