[JDEV] open source webclient on port 80 + moderated chat

[Peter Millard]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kuczek" <royblackd at yahoo.com>
> I have two questions:
> 1.) jabber.com offers a webclient that is being
> tunneled through port 80, which would be exactly what
> I need! (corporate firewalls)
> - Is it open source?

No, the Jabber, Inc. webclient is a commercial product.

> - If no, is there an open source equivalent?

Not yet :) I'm hoping someone will get motivated and write up an open-source
implementation. The protocol and approach that Jabber, Inc. used is
documented in this information JEP: http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0025.html

> - If yes, where can I download it?
> - Would you need the commercial jabber.com server or
> would it also work with the open source jabber server?

Any external component developed for the open source server can run on the
Jabber, Inc. commercial server and vice-a-versa.. It's the nature of
external components :) They use XML streams to talk to jabberd, just like
clients use XML streams.

> 2.) is there a solution for jabber that allows
> moderated group chat rooms? I mean a moderator being
> able to accept or deny certain posts, which is
> necessary for larger chat sessions with i.e. an
> expert... The best thing would be, if this also worked
> over a webclient on port 80!

The existing open-source conferencing implementation does not include this
functionality. Dave Waite spent a bunch of time trying to come up with a new
draft for conferencing protocol which included all of this type of
functionality, but that effort has been pretty "stagnant" for a while. Lots
of people are interested in having better/more-robust conferencing stuff,
but no one has really stepped up to the plate and put together a JEP yet.

Peter M.