[JDEV] webclient project

[dlb]

the WCS module that jer had developed can be used for http clients -
http://download.jabber.org/wcs/ . These can be developed using html and
javascript.





----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Shoyher" <mike at shoyher.com>
To: "Richard Dobson" <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 11:20 AM
Subject: Re[2]: [JDEV] webclient project


> Hello Richard,
>
> Friday, January 03, 2003, 6:51:00 PM, you wrote:
>
> RD> Its probably better to help the existing projects rather than create a
whole
> RD> new one of your own, I think i saw a javascript one a while back that
looked
> RD> promising.
>
> All the clients I found so far aren't pure web, they use either flash or
> java to connect to the server. I had an intention to make a
> jabber-based web chat, but things look quite complicated to me.
>
> The major problem is our beloved statelessness of the HTTP. That means
> the web server must keep all sessions to the jabber server. I don't
> see a good way to do it using mod_perl.
>
> Probably it would make sense to invent special stateless transport for
> the jabber server. The jabber server keeps sessions anyway so we could
> unburden the client and provide a way for the client to send what it
> wants and fetch the whole backlog of waiting messages.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Mike                            mailto:mike at shoyher.com
>
>
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