[JDEV] Getting lotsa ACKs from jabber.org

[Sami Haahtinen]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 08:27:47PM +0200, Jesper L. Nielsen wrote:
> I've noticed that the jabber client I use, after a while, recieves a
> lot of ACK packages. The packages themselves contain a different
> number of empty spaces, usually ranging from 1-10 spaces.  In other
> words, the packages contain no XML.
> 
> Any what these packages are, and how is my client supposed to answer
> the packages?
> 
> Client is CenterICQ running on Debian/Linux kernel 2.4.20.

i would assume that, CenterICQ attempts to simulate keepalive by sending
whitespace to the server. The fact that it's ACK packets, doesn't really
matter, as it's the normal behaviour of TCP streams.

Regards, Sami

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