Excerpts from Dave Cridland's message of Tue Apr 13 16:57:19 +0100 2010: > On Tue Apr 13 15:11:12 2010, Matthew Wild wrote: > > I (nobody ask me why) > > Why? > > Oh, sorry. >
Actually the reason may interest you especially, but it's off-topic for this list, sorry :) > > recently implemented a server-side IBB->TCP proxy. Everything went > > smoothly, and it actually maps quite nicely, given that it is > > already bidirectional. > > > > One noticeable thing lacking though is a way to close a stream with > > an error. I can add this data in a new namespace, but it struck me > > that it might be useful to specify either a way to add an error to > > a <close/> stanza, or simply (but perhaps less cleanly, as it only > > works in direct reply to an incoming data packet) specify that a > > stream is closed if any type="error" stanza is received in reply to > > a sent stanza. > > > > Thoughts? > > Should an error close or half-close? > I don't see a reason to introduce additional complexity, so I'd say a full close. Matthew
