[JDEV] priority question
Julian Fitzell
julian at beta4.com
Mon Apr 15 15:44:14 CDT 2002
Sorry, that is exactly what I meant only expressed better :)
Julian
Casey Crabb wrote:
> Actually, presence notifications should be sent to foo at bar.com, and not
> a particular resource because presence notifications should be broadcast
> to all resources currently connected. Messages should go to foo at bar.com
> and then be distributed to the resource with highest priority.
>
> Also, transports should rebroadcast presence information to
> newly-connecting resources so that the presence of all roster items is
> known. The aim transport does not do this, the icqv7t and msn both do to
> my knowledge.
>
> --
> Casey
>
> Julian Fitzell wrote:
>
>> This has been discussed to some degree before and no agreement was
>> ever really reached as far as I remember. But at the moment, the
>> transports are just plain unaware of resources.
>>
>> I personally believe that correct behaviour is:
>> - transports should send presence notifications to foo at bar.com not
>> foo at bar.com/baz - that way the server can direct the presence to the
>> highest priority resource. Currently at least some of the transports
>> remember what resource you logged in with and only send presence there.
>> - same policy for messages, I think. Just because I logged in from
>> home first, doesn't mean when I come online at work I don't want to
>> get my msn, icq, etc. messages
>>
>> Julian
>>
>> David Waite wrote:
>>
>>> So what is the correct behavior or a transport in regards to resources?
>>>
>>> -David Waite
>>>
>>> Julian Fitzell wrote:
>>>
>>>> aliban at gmx.net wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> maybe this is already known...
>>>>>
>>>>> when i added connected with a second resource(/resource2) to my
>>>>> jabber account (server amessage.de) both connected had no priority
>>>>> set (0).
>>>>> Whatever other clients keep on sending msgs to the last connected
>>>>> resource(/resource2) the icq/aim gateway sends it´s msgs to the
>>>>> older resource(/resource1) the gateways to not even become
>>>>> available to the /resource2
>>>>>
>>>>> is this a transport bug or must it be my fault?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Definitely a transport bug as far as I'm concerned. The transports
>>>> make poor use of resources and presence in my opinion. I started
>>>> trying to hack it to work better at one point but didn't get very
>>>> far. I think it's just low on people's priority lists.
>>>>
>>>> But definitely not your fault.
>>>>
>>>> Julian
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