On Thu Oct 23 11:48:09 2008, Dirk Meyer wrote:
Hi,
I had a strange discussion with a co-worker yesterday about the
abuse of
HTTP. Well, to make a long story short:
http://www.tzi.de/~dmeyer/jingle-http.html
This is a very early draft and only shows the very basic idea. What
do
you think? IMHO it could be useful.
I think this would be useful to work on for a number of reasons, not
least because it gives me an excuse to suggest using it to run XMPP
over BOSH over HTTP over Jingle over XMPP over BOSH over HTTP over
Jingle over ...
Come on, you were all thinking it.
Seriously, I can see lots of interesting, if slightly weird, use
cases for this. There are slightly more if you introduce the concept
of proxying, and even more if one can figure out a way of encoding
the Jid within the URI, such that a browser might switch between
HTTP/Jingle and HTTP/TCP.
Dave.
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