[JDEV] Re: OOB filetransfer negotiation

[temas]

Sebastiaan 'CBAS' Deckers wrote:

>>There are two workarounds that I know of to the firewall problem:
>>(1) Sender uploads the file to a public server someplace, i.e. your
>>storage area on your ISP account. Works best with FTP or WebDAV access.
>>Then you send the receiver a URL to where the file got uploaded. I hear
>>that some Jabber clients already support this.
>>(2) Someone runs a public "relay server" that accepts connections from
>>two machines that want to communicate, then relays socket traffic in
>>both directions from one to the other. There is a prototype protocol and
>>implementation at jabber.org (but I've lost the email that announced it.)
>>
>
>Or you could do the same thing that just about every P2P filesharing
>protocol known to man does:
>Step 1: ask for the non-firewalled user's IP and an opened port
>Step 2: the firewalled user uploads the file directly to that port and IP
>
>Yes, this only works when atleast one user is not-firewalled, but it's
>better then what we have now (IM-not-so-HO)
>
>So why is there no Jabber protocol thingy for this method?
>
>Btw,  Using a third party server (WebDav, FTP or some sort of relay) seems
>like madness to me. Who would let people suck up all that bandwidth? A
>Jabber server sounds reasonable but a relayserver for a thousand people?
>Yeah right.
>
>Bye,
>Sebastiaan
>
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Although this is not completely official yet, there are already two 
implementations of it:

http://core.jabber.org/pass.html

Take a gander and see what you think.

--temas