[JDEV] filetransfer in jabber

[David Waite]

Philippe Raxhon wrote:

> 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, 

Sure, our official mechanism is via HTTP through jabber:iq:oob. WebDAV 
is considered a proxying mechanism (because you cannot connect to a fake 
web server run by clients behind a corporate/private firewall or nat). 
There was also a mechanism called PASS written up in an experimental JEP 
a while back (basically as an alternative to WebDAV/jabber:iq:oob which 
allows for better proxy negotiation and for data to be streamed rather 
than store/forward), but it appears to be dead/sleeping.

-David Waite