-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7/16/09 12:18 AM, Matthew Rushton wrote: > Hi, > I've been reading up on pubsub and have a question regarding > subscriptions. I'm looking for functionality that allows a user to > temporarily subscribe to a node, perhaps based on presence. For example > consider a client that is not subscribed to any nodes, logs in, > subscribes to a node somehow and then logs out unsubscribing themselves > in the process. I've read section 9.1.3 of XEP-0060 (shown below) which > seems to suggest this functionality may be possible. However I'm not > sure it allows subscription to indivdual nodes? It really just seems > like pubsub was not built with the concept of temporary subscriptions in > mind, though I may just be missing something. The other option I could > use would be a chat room which seems to be much more dynamic in terms of > temporary membership. My concern there is the size limitations of the > room which could grow to be quite large. Thanks in advance, any > thoughts/ideas are greatly appreciated. > -Matt
So you basically want to subscribe to the node for the life of your session, and when you go offline the subscription magically disappears. Correct? > 9.1.3 Presence Sharer > > If the node has an open access model, the pubsub service SHOULD also > consider an entity to be temporarily and implicitly subscribed to the > node if the entity sends presence to the account owner in the absence of > a presence subscription. In this case, the subscription SHOULD be based > on the 'from' address of the presence stanza, which will be a full JID > (<[email protected]/resource> or <domain.tld/resource>). When the > service receives unavailable presence from the full JID, it MUST > consider cancel the temporary subscription. That's for PEP, not generic PubSub. Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqxanAACgkQNL8k5A2w/vw4hQCgkLR4OerdeXfLMVKUKo7wzzfR BqYAoNLD/4taCFqebxweIVqOFtKGnsup =hffn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
