On Monday 20 October 2008 11:42:39 Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > Alban Crequy wrote: > > I need to know all the contact capabilities in Telepathy, even if there > > is no open stream. If an application want to display a contact chooser > > to start a VNC session, a game, or whatever on top of XMPP, I need to > > know which contacts are able to do VNC or a specific game. > > > > I implemented an automatic caps lookup via disco in telepathy-salut > > (the XEP-0174 implementation in the Telepathy framework). It opens a > > stream only if a "ver" TXT record is advertised *and* if the "ver" > > record is not already known. > > Right, I see the need for that. But it's unfortunate. > > Still thinking...
One idea might be to use DNS-SD to share the disco information. Publish PTR records like _http://jabber.org/protocol/si/profile/filetransfer._xmpp.local. Maybe that would get out of hand, or not? -Justin
