[JDEV] Re: OOB filetransfer negotiation

[Simon Guindon]

I believe any connection like this, be it voice chat, webcam, white board,
file transfers, all should be P2P if possible.  This should be made possible
by some sort of negotiation process and if its found that both machines are
behind a firewall thats not accessible then do the proxy method whichever
way that is done.

Atleast this makes for possible faster interaction and takes load off the
server thats doing the proxy stuff rather than everyone defaulting.

Don't forget, senders don't HAVE to be acting as the listening connection,
if the sender is behind a firewall and the reciever isn't, then when they
accept the file they can tell the sender "its ok I'm not behind a firewall
you connect to me".

Those are my thoughts.

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On Behalf Of
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Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:15 PM
To: jdev at jabber.org
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Re: OOB filetransfer negotiation


A concept...

o On Server there is a CGI program
o ClientA wants to send a file to ClientB
o ClientA sends message to ClientB that says 'I wana
  send a file, fileX, connect here to Server's IP,
  TCP port 80'
o ClientB goes and does it
o Server returns in the http header OOB-Port: portX
  where portX is some string
o Server does not finish sending headers - it just pauses
o Server and clientB stay connected
o ClientB sends ClientA a message and says, 'server says
  port is portX'
o ClientA posts to Server with a variable port = portX
  mime = mime/type and stream = base64 encoded file.
o Server finishes the http header to clientB giving the
  mime type, and then feeds clientB the stream from clientA

I know it's kinda silly, but it'd work and it would allow the web server to
not temporarily store the data that's being sent like you need to do with
the upload and reference method.

Mat.

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:20:27PM -0500, temas wrote:
> 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.)
> >>
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