[JDEV] Aquiring a users ip address from inside a component?

[David Waite]

The IP address of a user is not shared throughout the system; Jabber 
clients speak over one socket to one server, so the IP address is not 
needed for normal operation. The server implementations out there do not 
pass the IP address around since it is not useful to the components 
within - the easiest way to get an IP is going to be having the client 
send it.

Also, just from curiousity - how do you plan to go through firewalls? 
That IP may wind up being pretty useless - you might want to instead 
have the clients connect the game to a common game server.

-David Waite

Lloyd Weehuizen wrote:

>Hey Guys
>
>I'm writting a component for jabberd and its going really well, I commend
>you on your easily extensible system. I am writing a lobby component for a
>multiplayer game we're developing and want to know if it is possible to
>obtain the ip address of a user so that other clients can determine which IP
>to connect to.
>
>There don't seem to be any functions to get the mio details for a jid? Any
>help would be appreciated.
>
>Also I was thinking, it would be really cool if you could add new xml
>namespace for executing external applications.
>
>For example:
><foo xmlns="jabber:iq:execute" parameters="stuff"/>
>
>Then inside a jabber client a user could associate the the "foo" tag with
>some executable on their system. This shouldn't cause too much of a security
>risk I don't think? This would allow people to use standard jabber clients
>while executing other helper applications on demand.
>
>Just my 2c...
>
>Thanks
>Lloyd
>
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