[JDEV] urgent: Proxy Server

[Thomas Charron]

Quoting Yermo Lamers <yml at dtlink.com>:
> Why not simply implement the Jabber protocol over HTTP? 
> If no one has done that by the time we get started on our project, we'll
> implement it. ( ~2 months time before we get started on this)

  Easier said then done.  This is simply due to the fact that HTTP itself isn't 
a persistent protocol.  While it *can* be made to work this way, not all proxy 
servers will respect the persistence of an HTTP 1.1 connection, and will 
instead issue several HTTP 1.0 requests, with the persietence only taking place 
between the client and the proxy server itself.  It *IS POSSIBLE*, but what 
would be needed would be a way to 'emulate' a persistent connection by using 
logical 'sessions'.  These sessions would identify a given login, and spool 
data going out untill the HTTP client implentation could connect, validate that 
it owns a certain session ID, and retrieve the XML packets spooled up.  Simply 
a matter of a negotiation system being made, really.

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Thomas Charron
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