[JDEV] Autoupdate

[Kriggs]

On July 16, 2002 02:02 am, you wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:35:08PM -0400, Kriggs wrote:
> > So it is the client's job to talk directly to the autoupdate service
> > provider?
>
> yes, the autoupdate-agent has no way of knowing which clients are in use
> everywhere in the world.
>
> also it is a much better thing to send the autoupdate request through
> jabber than to poll a website or something, as the client has already
> made it's connection to jabber server, you have less work and more
> reliable way of passing on the request.

Hmmm. Maybe I should ask my question a different way.

How does the server a client is connected to know that there is a new version 
available? Does the server query some database when the client asks? From 
what I understand, the server DOES have something to do with this...