[JDEV] Annotating user's presence with extra information

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Point taken. :)

Peter

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On 10 Apr 2002, Thomas Muldowney wrote:

> It's generally considered bad to overload <presence>.  This is because
> it is the only current element that the server rebroadcasts.  For people
> with large rosters this can be a lot of information the server then has
> to push out.  If there is a strong technical reason that it needs to be
> in <presence> I would suspect you would be interested in the current
> discussion about pubsub in Jabber.  You can find more on the standards
> jig mailing list.  Does that help you find a better fit?
> 
> --temas
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 11:17, Henry Minsky wrote:
> > 
> > I am working on a project where we have a server that is tracking users' 
> > locations
> > via various technologies, and recording them in a realtime database.
> > 
> > I would like to be able to annotate each jabber user on the server with
> > some information about their physical location. This information would most 
> > likely be
> > retrieved in the presence information for each user, although might there
> > be some better place to put it, such as a new separate iq query?
> > 
> > Note that the clients themselves do not necessarily know their own locations,
> > that information is derived on the server, so I need my "location server" to
> > somehow inject the location information for each user into the jabber
> > server, where it can be accessed by custom clients, or perhaps also stuffed
> > into the english-readable status strings, for backward compatibility with 
> > existing
> > clients.
> > 
> > Anyone else working on something like this?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 	Henry Minsky
> > 
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