[JDEV] Flash?

Tue Jan 9 23:48:31 CST 2001

absolutely!  I have a python module which does that.  Actually it's 
other purpous in life is to act as an anonymous interface to the jabber 
server (for web based clients).  Both of these issues are things that 
Jer said was on the cards but i've heard no more about it.

It's a shame to have a solution which uses 2 sockets and a scripting 
language when it is such a simple thing to add to the pthsock code. 

<message to="jer" type="pleading">
   <body>Wazzup bud?  Any word on flash compatibility and anonymous 
interfacing in 1.4</body>
</message>

as always a pleasure dlb,

ROAR

dlb wrote:

> I've investigated developing a TCL "socket interchange" for this purpose.
> >From my understanding of the problem it shouldn't be too difficult to create
> a component which will intermediate communication between Flash and Jabber -
> parse their respective streams - and translate each protocol accordingly.
> The component would need to perform certain basic session management duties
> as well .
> 
> The fundamental problem seems to arise from the fact that Flash5 uses a null
> terminator to delimit XML packets. This will kill the session on the jabber
> side.  The component would need to read XML packets deriving from jabber and
> append a null byte.  Streams originating from the flash client would need to
> have the null byte removed.
> 
> is this accurate Oliver ? - you're more familiar with this area than I am.
> 
> it should be possible to modify elements of the tclhttpd server for this
> purpose. This can be configured for either multithreading or standard TCL
> file I/O and , according to my own use and the benchmarks I've seen, is very
> robust.
> 
> would it be appropriate to implement this as a form of transport ? - a
> server module - or a standalone server ?
> 
> David
> 
> Oliver George wrote:
> 
>> Regarding Flash 5 specifically... I'm curious myself.  there are a few
>> simple imcompatibilities which i proposed a solution to, i can't see the
>> changes in 1.4pre (where i was hoping they'd appear).
>> 
>> There are no great libraries but simple client operations are trivial to
>> hand code.
>> 
>> Anyone else have something more constructive to add?
>> 
>> ROAR
>> 
>> Andy Alsup wrote:
>> 
>>> I read the posts up to this point, but nothing more on the fate of
>>> Flash. Does anyone know the status of Flash support/workaround in
>>> Jabber server.
>>> 
>>> Also, anyone with a Flash client they'd like to share?
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Not a list member, so respond directly please.
>>> 
>>> 
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