[JDEV] Webpresence revisited [Was: JabberCentral]

[Michael Brown]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Millard"
> Bart van Bragt wrote:
> > There are already some online indicators available. The problem with
> > these indicators is that most of them work on a site basis. So you need
> > one bot/agent in your roster for every site where you want to display
> > your presence.
> >
> > IMO that's not really feasible, that's why we're currently working on
> > presence.jabber.org, a service that any user/webmaster can use.
>
> The "correct" way (IMO) to do this is to use the presence-bcc feature
available
> on most jabber servers. The presence agent's JID would be placed in that
section
> of the jabber.xml file, and it would get a copy of all presence packets
flowing
> thru the server.
>
> To "allow" my presence to be published, I would just use the iq:register
> protocol to register with this new service, and bam, it would instantly
start to
> show my presence (it's already receiving it). No subscriptions would be
> necessary. If you attempt to build this as a bot, you're going to have
problems
> scaling it.

How would that work for - say - a presence indicator in someones email .sig?

Michael.