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

[Ryan Eatmon]

Darn.  I was so hoping.


Sean Voisen wrote:
> 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
> 
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Ryan Eatmon
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