[JDEV] Jabber Resource Questions

[Max Horn]

At 14:08 Uhr +1000 01.08.2000, Michael Brown wrote:
>A couple of questions regarding resources:
>
>Is there any way in Jabber to look up a list of resources that a person has
>defined, or are you just limited to seeing what ones they are online with at
>the time?

No. This cannot be done. Well, it *could* be done by using a huge DB 
that stores each ever used resource, but it is not in JServer 1.0

And I think it is rather pointless to do that. I'll explaing below


>
>For example, say I come across a URL I think a friend may be interested in
>seeing.  I know he is at work at right now (he is logged on as
>userid at jabber.org/work say) and won't have time to read it until he gets
>home.  I want to send it to him at home so it is waiting for him, but I
>don't know his home resource.  It could be userid at jabber.org/home or it
>could be userid at jabber.org/StanleySt etc).  He has not left his home
>computer logged onto Jabber.  Is there anyway I could find out?  Ideally I
>would like to have a picklist with all the resources that a person uses
>available when someone is sending a message.

1) Even if you knew that his home resource is e.g. 
userid at jabber.org/home, that wouldn't matter. If you send a message 
there, and it is not online, it will be delivered to the active 
resource, in this case his userid at jabber.org/work.

The only way to achieve this would be if *he* set up a  mod_filter 
(possible startin JServer 1.1).

The point of Instant Messaging is to reach someone instantly, 
regardless of where he is.



>Also, I assume there is nothing to stop you from sending messages to
>yourself at a different resource?  (Or at the same resource?)

No, no problem.


>Another thing - I understand that the Jabber ID's and resources are not case
>sensitive, however I have a problem if I send a time/client version query to
>userid at jabber.org/winjab when they are logged on as
>userid at jabber.org/Winjab - a query error service unavailable is returned.
>Is this something in Jabber, or maybe a client error?

Uh... resources *are* case sensitive. That's why you get an error.


>  Also, I don't
>understand why I can't send a time/client version query to userid at jabber.org
>and have a valid result returned.  Surely it should just go to the resource
>with the highest priority?  Again, it returns a querty error.

I stumbled over this while implementing it into my client, too. I see 
the logic beind this decision (only resource have a client associated 
to them), but I agree with you, I'd find it more comfortable if this 
returned the version/time of the main resource.


Bye,

Max
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