[JDEV] filetransfer in jabber

[Philippe Raxhon]

Just some thoughts.

It could be time for the jabber community to define an "official" way 
file sharing should be done. I don't say here that it should be written 
by jabber folks, or that it should be part of the jabber server, but 
having a implementation reference could help. For instance, using webdav 
is a very good idea, but, if this solution is choosen, it should be said 
somewhere that's the way jabber clients and transports should/could do 
file sharing. But more than that, an implementation of webdav (webdav is 
only a protocol after all) could become the, once again, "official" file 
sharing solution,

Once it's settled, it will be easier for everybody to support that 
feature and will lead, I'm sure, to a quick integration into the 
clients, transports and even, I hope, the jabber server, at least for 
the installation and configuration. I know that taking such kind of 
decision is not really the way the open-source community is working, 
more often a de-facto standard emerges by itself, but I could make 
thinks so easier.

my 2 cents

Philippe

PS: sorry for my english (et merde, ou est ce putain de dictionnaire?)

David Waite wrote:

> Johan Persson wrote:
>
>> Which means that if one wishes the jabber filertransfer to work as 
>> others IM's (like icq) the client should have a build-in http-server.
>>
> Yes, this is (somewhat) correct. The files do not neccessarily have to 
> be served locally - some clients transfer files through WebDAV on an 
> intermediate server, for instance. But all transfers use HTTP.
>
> -David Waite
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