[JDEV] Re-using session - is it possible?

[Sami Haahtinen]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 06:10:00PM +0200, Sebastian Paul Avarvarei wrote:
> I have a new question now: is it possible to use the same connection
> to the server from different applications? For example, a server side
> PHP script does the Jabber login and then a Java applet continues to
> use the same connection which was already open. If the applet would
> know the Jabber session ID, can it somehow talk with the server
> without doing a new login?

By the nature of TCP streams, there is no way of doing this.

> What I'm trying to do is to avoid asking the visitor to login twice:
> once on the site itself and once in the Jabber client (the site
> already has member login). 

you could accomplish this by either building a custom made proxy in
between the applications and the actual Jabber server. Or by passing on
the parameters from the first login to the applet and make the applet
use those parameters to log in.

But with vanilla jabber, using TCP streams, it is not possible.

ofcourse, you can always attempt to add support for additional protocols
(like the ICMP ping) which do not have the same limitations as TCP =)

Sami

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