[JDEV] webclient project

[Peter Millard]

Stefan Strigler wrote:
> Hello,
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 07:20:48PM +0300, Mike Shoyher wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Hm, what's the problem? Statelessness is what you always have to deal
> with. Once you're logged in mod_perl holds up the connection to the
> jabber server for you (sure there must be some timeout or so). Session
> is tracked by apache itself (or by a cookie).

I would reccomend looking into support JEP-25. If you built an open-source
implementation of a polling server, then clients (like exodus) could also
use it to poll via HTTP. Your webclient could use the same protocol for
polling and getting data in and out of it's session. It would be cool to
have an OS version of a polling daemon that other folks could use. (AFAIK,
the only one is a commercial version from Jabber, Inc.)

pgm