[jdev] Flash Proxy (was: Jabberd2, Flash Client...)

[Sean Voisen]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Richard Dobson wrote:

> Kind of, although I think a flash proxy would be far more useful than a CCM
> component, otherwise flash components are forced to use only the jabber
> server hosted at the same ip address / domain that the flash app came from.

I agree with Richard that a proxy is a good solution, and it lets anyone
deploying a Flash/XMPP application get around the security sandbox issue
with relative ease. It still doesn't help anyone who wants to deploy
without installing anything on their server (say, users of shared hosting
services) but not much can be done about that other than crossdomain.xml
negotiations.

> IMO it is far better to develop the proxy first then possibly the CCM
> component second if people really see a need for it, IMO the proxy maybe all
> thats required to get things working.
>
> > So I'm guessing that JECL would be an appropriate
> > framework for developing these ?

I'm not a C++ developer and I don't know anything about JECL really.

Richard: Can you outline your vision as to how the proxy itself would
work? ie - negotiations, communications from various parties? Maybe it's a
straightforward matter, but I admit I'm completely ignorant about such
things.

- Sean

Sean Voisen
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