Am 13.12.2008 um 10:52 schrieb Dirk Meyer:
HTTP over XMPP may be just wrong to do, but VNC over HTTP is very usefull. Think about all the PC users you know who ask your for help from time to time. It is easier if you can just use VNC to show them remotly. But they are always behind a NAT, so VNC does not work. There are solutions to that problem, but providing VNC access by using XMPP and tunnel the VNC data over a Jingle stream is a very ellegant trick. There will be a button "Get help from Jonathan" and the XMPP client will connect to you, negotiate a Jingle connection and you will see the remote desktop. But that would require a) end-to-end security and b) a TCP-like connection. On the other hand, I would all have lesstime to do stuff I want if my sister could get help with a single button:)
Sorry, I didn't mean that the idea was crazy of VNC via XMPP (whereas HTTP via XMPP sure is), but that VPN via XMPP is even less crazy :). Sure VNC via XMPP is useless, and once again this is where XMPP could replace something proprietary: TeamViewer for example.
-- Jonathan
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