[JDEV] Out-of-band transfer

[Robert Temple]

I've implemented file transfer in my client using the HTTP described below.
When I was starting the work I realized that Jabber doesn't define
a standard way of negotiating the HTTP connections so I came up with
something that I thought was somewhat secure.  I talked about it here:

http://mailman.jabber.org/pipermail/jdev/2000-November/003869.html

and got a response here:
http://mailman.jabber.org/pipermail/jdev/2000-November/003870.html

I got a few more responses, but this one is the most important.

Hope this helps,
Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: David Waite [mailto:dwaite at jabber.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 6:23 PM
To: jdev at jabber.org
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Out-of-band transfer


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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