[JDEV] URL form of JID?

[DJ Adams]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 07:44:21PM +1000, Michael Brown wrote:
> > jabber:jdev at conference.jabber.org?action=chat   # join a chat room
> >
> > vs
> >
> > jabber:jdev at conference.jabber.org?action=join   # join a chat room
> 
> jabber:jdev at conference.jabber.org?action=chat joining a chatroom could get
> confusing.  I would have assumed it would have started a line-by-line

Yes, hence the forced comparison ;-)

> private chat (as opposed to sending a "normal" message- see
> http://docs.jabber.org/jpg/html/main.html#REFMESSAGE for details).
> 
> Having two "chat" types in Jabber does confuse things a little...

There's only one chat type, but it's used in different contexts
(contexts that are mostly layers that we impose with our 
understanding, rather than technical contexts)

dj