[JDEV] Out-of-band transfer

[David Waite]

Heya Shawn!

there is actually a jabber:iq:oob for indicating that you wish to do this sort
of (file) transfer.

Steps go as follows:
you decide you want to send someone a mpeg
you send them a oob request
they process your oob request and establish a connection.

the few clients which support this use HTTP for the transfer. Either a
mini-HTTP server locally is used to perform the transfer, or some intermediate
server (such as a HTTP server with WebDAV) gets the file and keeps it. I do not
know if there is a standardized 'reply' after the file is complete, rejected,
or the user gives up - the timeout of an object is difficult to determine.

-David Waite

"Mills, Shawn" wrote:

> Hey JDEV,
>
> Is it possible to do client-to-client (out-of-band) transfers? As a client
> developer, do we have access to the IP address of someone on our buddy list?
> Can we just send them a jpeg or mpeg directly (assuming they are running the
> same client software we are)?
>
> Just wondering if anyone has tried this.
>
> Thanks!
>
> +Shawn
>
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