[JDEV] filetransfer in jabber
Philippe Raxhon
raxhonp at easynet.be
Tue Apr 23 17:07:51 CDT 2002
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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