[JDEV] Questions

[Peter Saint-Andre]

> As part of our research into using IM we looked at RVP as well. RVP is
> wrapped around http:// which lets it tunnel through proxies and
> firewalls to establish connections to the server. Does Jabber
> currently do tunnelling or is it planning to. If not, how do you
> suggest connecting through proxies or firewalls? We've thought of
> changing the port of the client and server but that would only work
> for some firewalls.

The HTTP service is under construction, which will enable communications
through port 80. This requires work on the server side (the old
svc_http) and the client side (right now we really don't have any
HTTP-based clients). Hopefully in the next month or two we'll have some
working code on both sides of the equation.

Hope this helps.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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