[jdev] Jabberd2, Flash Client and terminator character...

[Sean Voisen]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Ryan Eatmon wrote:

> Does Flash support TCP/IP connections?

No.

> Does Flash support basic string handling?

Of course.

> If the answers to the above are Yes (which I suspect they are), then why
> is the option of someone writing an XMPP library that works they way all
> of the other languages work not discussed?

Such a library exists. I wrote it.
http://www.jabberstudio.org/projects/xiff
Not sure what you mean by "the way all of the other languages work" ...

The problem is this: Flash does not support generic tcp/ip connections. We
are entirely limited to the XMLSocket object that is native in the player
for persistent socket connections. Macromedia is very careful about the
security of the Flash plug-in, so it's doubtful we'll see generalized
TCP/IP any time in the future.

The only other option we have is what LinuxWolf mentioned by using
non-persistent connections over HTTP. I'm looking into that now ...

- Sean

Sean Voisen
Weblog: http://voisen.org
Flash/XMPP: http://xifflabs.com
XIFF 2.0: http://www.jabberstudio.org/projects/xiff