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

[Sean Voisen]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Richard Dobson wrote:

> Well this is how I see it working, using a simple control protocol along the
> lines of what is above to control the proxy from the flash app, also
> documenting a protocol like this for the flash interop as a JEP would IMO be
> a very good idea as it would "set in stone" as it were the interface to the
> proxy allowing the development of lots of different implementations that
> will interop properly (if people follow the spec :) ).

Richard - thanks for the very thorough outline. Once the Flash client is
done with initial negotiations and reverts to XMPP, does the proxy just
sort of become a "dumb router" in the sense that it merely strips the
zero-byte of the incoming data (from Flash) and sends it on it's merry
way? I guess my question is why the need to develop a proxy control
protocol when we could just use XMPP?

- Sean