Sorry for the late reply to these message... First: I would prefer HTTP but I have no skin in the game so my vote is rather mute. When the XMPP server came up I had to go search and read and understand what it was. I think I might be a rather general example of other people out there that want to use Wave. I've done https and certs and blah blah blah. I don't even know the names of XMPP servers. Also the idea of rewriting WIAB in non-Java (like Ruby) very much interests me. Obviously that is not a concern for this group. But I would be much more comfortable attacking that project if it was HTTP based than XMPP based. My point is that I think the federation would spread quicker if HTTP could be used.
Second: someone mentioned BOSH and someone else mentioned (gross paraphrase) "Gee... I've worked towards using XMPP by implementing enhancements". Could the two protocols be able to be mutated from one to the other using BOSH so that a HTTP server could federate with a XMPP server via a BOSH proxy? Third is a question: Given server A, how does it know how to talk to server B if it has two choices? Does it try one and then try the other? On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Michael MacFadden < [email protected]> wrote: > Right, assuming we do this correctly the HTTP transport and the XMPP > transport would essentially be communicating the same set of protocol > buffer messages. > > ~Michael > > On Nov 18, 10:52 am, Tad Glines <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:41 AM, [email protected] < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:43 PM, James Purser <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > This isn't a whole new protocol, it's a new transport for the > protobuffs > > > > protocol. > > > > James > > > > > Oh, my mistake. I had read that as a reworking of the federation > > > prototcol; if it's just the client-server communication then I don't > > > care. > > > > No, it is a new transport for the federation protocol; federation over > HTTP > > (new) as well as federation over XMPP (existing). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Wave Protocol" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<wave-protocol%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en.
