[JDEV] Offline file attachments etc

[Keith Minkler]

the general consensious of the Jabber team is that things such as file attachments, voice streams, or any other BLOBs (Binary Large Objects) Do not belong in the jabber protocol, and are all "out of band".  What this means, is that you can use jabber to setup a session with another user, but then the data will be transfered by some other means.. 

in the case of file transfers, we use http to send files out of band.  Winjab also supports uploading your files to a WebDav server, which can remain there for a period of time (even after you disconnect from jabber) for the other user to download.

mime may never be a part of the core jabber protocol... however we may look at supporting alternate bodies, in the form of xhtml in the future.

there is an smtp-transport, but currently (to my knowledge) it only supports sending email from your jabber client. (no attachments).

Keith Minkler

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 09:20:44PM +0200, Bjorn Melinder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a strength of e-mail is being able to attach files although the recipient
> may not be online. Is this possible with the Jabber system or could it be
> made possible? Should it be? Thoughts:
> 
> - Someone earlier mentioned an offline-file-transfer-storage-public-FTP
> thing.
> 
> - Someone else mentioned "jabber:x:mime" embedding in messages, which seems
> best to me (apart from traffic load).
> 
> - The sendmail-transport
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Bjorn
> 
> 
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