On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 03:09:18PM +0000, Tedd Sterr wrote:
Post your tales of projects, developments, and other fascinating XMPP-related stories in this thread to keep them all in one place.
I spent most of 2020 in some internship-ish thing at a stereotypical ENTERPRISE. This mostly consisted of writing YAML for Kubernetes and looking after the internal chat. I shall not name what that was made of, but it wasn't XMPP. Since 2021 I've gone back to being an independent consultant and trying to also have time for doing cool Prosody and XMPP things. Here are some words typed by my hands: # Bad XMPP Previously mentioned on the jdev list[^1], it's a set of XMPP host with deliberately wonky configurations or problems, for testing how your connection establishment code behaves. Still primarily consisting of s2s tests, haven't gotten to c2s tests yet, but I meant to. For a list of specific tests, see <https://badxmpp.eu> # "REST" stanza API Started as an experiment combining new code for keeping track of IQ stanzas using ES6 Promises, combined with support in the Prosody HTTP stack for promises, which let you send a HTTP request with an IQ stanza which would wait and return the response. I found this quite fascinating, being able to query remote servers via curl. It also gained a reverse "webhook" mode, where incoming stanzas gets forwarded to a local web service, as a way to build bots or components using web tech. The responding service can then reply by returning a stanza in the http response, or return an empty response and then send something later using the previously mentioned API. Because web tech must be based on JSON, mod_rest grew a limited JSON representation of some common stanza payloads, as well as support for some other payload formats, e.g. plain text. So you can build the Hello World echo bot by pointing this module at a plain text file on a web server. I think that's kinda neat. In theory this could be used as an alternative to BOSH in the future, but a few pieces are missing. There is also OAuth2 token authentication, which we might see more of in other parts of Prosody in the future. Stay tuned! For more, see: <https://modules.prosody.im/mod_rest> # HTTP Upload implementation Only a few weeks ago I went and made a new HTTP Upload module for Prosody since the old one was, well, an overgrown proof-of-concept implementation, with a few fundamental design problems and limitations. Some of those limitations were due to how the Prosody HTTP server started its life as purely meant for BOSH, i.e. optimized for small messages, rather than large binary uploads. Those issues have recently been fixed and Prosody should now handle uploads of arbitrary size reasonably well. Sneak a peek at the docs at <https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_http_file_share> # Fin All nice things mentioned require the bleeding edge development version of Prosody, and will be supported in the next major version. Coming soon[^2] to a distribution near you. [^1]: <https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/jdev/2020-March/090417.html> [^2]: not *that* soon, don't hold your breath -- Stay healthy and sane, Kim "Zash" Alvefur
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