[JDEV] adding new buddies

[Robert Temple]

I don't understand why the <persence type="subscribe"> packet is used to ask to subscribe to someone's presence.  IMO it would be a lot more intuitive and useful if the <query xmlns="jabber:iq:roster"> packet provided this function.

Already, the <presence type="subscribe"> packet is linked with the presence packet.  For example, if I send a <presence type="subscribe"> packet, I get back one or more "jabber:iq:roster" packets.

Couldn't the server handle a packet like:
<iq type="set" ...>
<query xmlns= "jabber:iq:roster">
<item ask="subscribe"...>
...

the same way it currently handles the 
<presence type="subscribe"> message?

and then instead of returning a 
<presence><status>Not Found</status>... packet when the person doesn't exist, it could return back a
<iq type='error'/ ...> message and one would expect.

-Robert

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