[JDEV] JEP-8 User Avatars in Jabber

[Julian Missig]

Despite what the "Status" field says, JEP-0008 was rejected.

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 11:16, Klaus H. Wolf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is JEP-8 still considered active?
> Is it worth discussing and worth as a guideline?
> 
> If yes, here the comment:
> - JEP-8 proposes 2 methods for retrieving the avatar data: client-client and
> client-storage
> - it prefers client-client
> - I discovered the following behaviour: if the client changes the avatar,
> then many other clients request the new data, and the server throttles the
> connection because of e.g. 10 x 5 KB.
> 
> Solution:
> - prefer client-storage over client-client.
> - if the client gets a request then it knows it must submit to the storage
> to avoid further requests.
> 
> Regards
> --
> Dr. Klaus H. Wolf
> bluehands GmbH & Co.mmunication KG
> http://www.bluehands.de/people/hw
> +49 (0721) 16108 75