[JDEV] my interest -- a few questions
Thomas Charron
tcharron at nermail.ups.com
Thu Apr 22 10:43:44 CDT 1999
> From: owner-jdev at jabber.org [mailto:owner-jdev at jabber.org]On Behalf Of
> Jeremie
> Subject: Re: [JDEV] my interest -- a few questions
> Wonderful! Perl can be a big boon to Jabber, and I just haven't had the
> time to really work on it yet... although I know Thomas Charron has done
> some.
Yep, done some.. UGLY as sin code, though.. If this week ever let's up,
I'm going to rewrite it to contain a hash of functions that will call on the
end tag and pass the text contained within the tag, something like:
%FunctionHash = ({"message", \&IncomingMessage}, {"status", \&Status});
Then when a message comes in, upon the end of the function, it will do a
&$FunctionHash{"message"}($TheText);
(I just pulledthat out of my rear, ok, It may bewrong, I stillrefer to the
perl man pagesat times..)
> It hasn't been talked about much yet, but at this point a user is really
> tied to their server, similiar to how your email client is tied to your
> email server. On the same note, providing forwarding will definately be
> added to one of the modules so that messages can be forwarded to your new
> location like in email.
> The other thing I've been mulling around, is that any of the common
> settings for your user account(name/password/security/preferences/etc)
> could be expressed in a common XML structure, and could be saved by the
> user or automatically sent from the old server to the new server, but that
> is a discussion that will have to wait till we have something to really
> test it with.
Good idea!! You could even store the password in crypt() form. And in
order to GET the XML profile, the requesting server would need to provide a
password in crypt() form.. If it matched, it'd send it.. This would make
it so that no server could get a password list to try to crack, as you'd
already need to KNOW the password to get it.. Perhaps even an option the
have a different 'remote access' password?
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Thomas Charron
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