[JDEV] weird new authentication/roster idea

[Daniel Arbuckle]

The company that owns them both likes it more. ;)

Daniel

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Mansell, Brian wrote:

> What does AIM++ have to offer so to speak that ICQ doesn't have?
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick McCuller [mailto:patrick at kia.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 2:20 PM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: RE: [JDEV] weird new authentication/roster idea
> 
> 
> 
> 	I've been working with LDAP for years. I'll be glad to help. I've
> been
> watching Jabber for a while, waiting mostly for a more complete
> implementation. As you point out, Jeremie, that's fast coming along, and I'm
> glad to see it. Especially good timing, too, as ICQ is toast (say hello to
> AIM++).
> 
> 
> Patrick
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-jdev at jabber.org [mailto:owner-jdev at jabber.org]On Behalf Of
> > Jeremie
> > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 11:18 AM
> > To: jdev at jabber.org
> > Subject: Re: [JDEV] weird new authentication/roster idea
> >
> >
> >
> > > as I look at the state of the authentication and roster pieces
> > of Jabber,
> > > i notice that mod_mysql is in the pipeline. May I suggest a
> > different way
> > > to do this stuff? Why not... LDAP? It is especially good for
> > applications
> > > like this, it appears. It is explicitly designed to handle
> > authentication
> > > and could certainly support rosters and other metadata, and
> > hold pointers
> > > to stored messages. I haven't researched this fully, but it may
> > also help
> > > with converting SMTP messages to Jabber messages. I might be
> > way off base
> > > here, but a full-blown SQL database seems a bit heavy to me. :)
> > A problem
> > > may be that the only free LDAP implementation I know of is not
> > GPLed, but
> > > Artistic (see http://www.openldap.org) but I think other GPL
> > projects are
> > > using it. (since the lib is only linked to in the client, it
> > may not be a
> > > problem) Anyway, it sure sounds cool :) Anyone have ideas on
> > this system?
> >
> > Funny, I was just reading more on LDAP yesterday :)
> >
> > IMHO, there will definately be a mod_ldap at some point since your right,
> > it's perfect for handling most of the needs of the server side, handling
> > user meta-data and such.  It will be much easier to write based off
> > mod_mysql or any other module once they become more complete, which will
> > happen over the next few months.
> >
> > > hey, wow! Bricktext!
> >
> > Very cool, especially if totally by accident!
> >
> > Jer
> >
> >
>