[JDEV] MSN transport questions

[Andrew Sayers]

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On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:14:09AM -0700, Nick Birren wrote:
> I'm interested in what can be done so we'll have a working MSN transport
> in Oct. 15, assuming that MSNP8/9 implementations will work. Got a few
> questions about that:
>  
> 1. Has anyone started developing such a transport?

Yes, me.  It's only an MSN library so for, but I'm talking to someone
who has offered to help with the Jabber end.  The library only supports
MSNP7 right now, but that's going to change.

> 2. What would be the best place to start looking at?

http://www.jabberstudio.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/msn-tng/

> 3. I read suggestions about jit & yahoo-transport - why not the existing
> MSN transport(s)?

Frankly, the existing MSN transport is a mess, and I'd rather start over
from scratch.

> I'm not familiar with jabber transports code, but AFAIK the gap between
> MSNP7 and 8 is not that serious (although there's some messy https auth
> stuff).

That's one way of looking at it :)
My understanding is that the move from MSNP7 to MSNP8 involves lots of
little changes (e.g. an extra value passed with a command here and there)
, but nothing earth-shattering.

	- Andrew
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