[JDEV] Requesting presence of User not in Roster

[Mark Lynch]

Thanks Peter,

Maybe I didn't make myself entirely clear. I know that the JUD is something
seperate. I'm looking for a way to let people search for each other easily
and then see if they are online before requesting to be added to their
roster. Even something similar to the message receipts on mobiles would be
handy, just so you know they've got it and don't twiddle your thumbs waiting
for them when they're not even online. 

Guess I'll have to find another solution for now.

Cheers,
Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Saint-Andre [mailto:stpeter at jabber.org]
Sent: 27 June 2001 18:34
To: jdev at jabber.org
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Requesting presence of User not in Roster


JUD != roster

JUD is a user database to which people can add themselves, and others can
find them there -- it's a user directory that is entirely optional.

Your roster is *your* contact list. Personally I have some large number of
people in my roster (perhaps 600, I haven't counted in a while). Indeed
you can't get presence for people unless they allow you to do so, and that
is the concept of subscription that's behind your roster.

If you are running your own server for your community, you could write a
server-side module that pulls out the presence of everyone on your server
but that's something you might not want to get into. :)

Peter

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Mark Lynch wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there anyway of requesting the presence of a user that is not in your
> roster? I'm trying to get some community stuff going using Jabber and
would
> prefer to keep using my own DB rather than a JUD. The way I see it I would
> have to maintain a huge roster of all my users to be able to query all
their
> presence's, which isn't something I'd like to do. 
> 
> Am I missing something? 
> 
> If it's not possible does anyone else see it as something useful to be
able
> to do?
> 
> All help appreciated!
> Mark
> 
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