> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:29:56 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Standards] switching between BOSH and TCP?
>
> On Monday 31 March 2008 9:14 am, Stephen Pendleton wrote:
> > I don't see why this is silly. As it says in the BOSH XEP: [BOSH] is useful
> > in situations where a device or client is unable to maintain a long-lived
> > TCP connection to an XMPP server.
..
>
> 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? :)
BOSH does currently solve the problem because BOSH is in draft stage and
implementations actually exist and are encouraged, while XEP-0198 is still at
0.3
experimental stage and no server implementations actually exist that I know of
(aside from an experimental one that may exist jabberd2). That is how the
choice happened for me anyway!
I like XEP-0198 a lot. I used it for a peer-to-peer XMPP client for MANET that
I wrote but in that case I had control over the implementations on both the
endpoints of the connection so lack of server-side support wasn't an issue.
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