[JDEV] existing protocol questions

[Lindsay.Marshall at newcastle.ac.uk]

>>4.
>>	How does the message extension work? What is its intended usage?
> 
>   You mean the <ext></ext> ?  Can be used for anything one deems fit.  I could actually send
> you a raw text file, contained within the ext tags..  The server/transports won't touch it, and
> will just pass it along.  It's a way to piggyback any data someone may want to pass along with a
> jabber packet without having to make ANYTHING aware of it..  Heck, eventually someone will probrably
> make a checkers game by passing move data between clients via the ext tag..

Um, surely the server transports wont touch *any* CDATA anywhere! At
least I hope they won't! Except of course where they have to handle
escaped character sequences which always get in the way. So why is ext
different from (say) <say></say>???

L.
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