[JDEV] thread tracking with aim-transport

[Bill Abbas]

Ahhh ... scratch that.  Turns out the request ID doesn't behave as my
(rather cursory) initial reading of it led me to believe.  

-Bill

> AIM's oscar protocol does have a "request ID" field.  It's a dword. 
> I haven't seen a DTD or schema for the Jabber protocol, so I'm not 
> sure what a <thread> tag needs to hold.  Is it just CDATA? 
> 
> If Jabber uses numeric thread IDs, it should be possible to punch the 
> value into the outgoing packet and pull it out of the incoming ones. 
> 
> If Jabber uses alphanumerics, I suppose some sort of mapping could be 
> done within the transport ... 
> 
> I don't know about ICQ. 
>
> -Bill