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

[JD Conley]

I agree with the Flash Proxy idea. As you've said, it doesn't need to be
limited to Flash.  But Flash is definitely the most compelling reason to
create something like that.  Flash GUIs are much nicer, IMO, than
standard Windows or DHTML GUIs.  At first I was on the "hack up the
socket code to get rid of the null bytes" bus, but I'm 100% on the
generic proxy side now.

JD

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Dobson [mailto:richard at dobson-i.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:34 AM
> To: Jabber software development list
> Subject: Re: [jdev] Flash Proxy (was: Jabberd2, Flash Client...)
> 
> > another advantage of a protocol handshake
> > is that it can be used to convey session, security, and
> > application-specific details relevant to a given
> > Flash client implementation.
> >
> > For instance, an application might want to transpose
> > its security policy to the proxy session. It might need to
> > connect on an alternative port due to firewall issues. And
> > the Flash player might then need to load a 'shim'.
> 
> Yea there are all sorts of things the proxy could do to make 
> the life of the
> flash app much more easy, IMO if we just go ahead and hack 
> the existing c2s
> protocol to work with the flash proxy it will make it messy, harder to
> understand for new comers, far more complex that it need be, 
> and we miss a
> big opportunity to make the proxy far more useful by adding 
> all sorts of
> features into it that the flash apps can take advantage of.
> 
> This is the perfect opportunity to help flash developers by 
> making their
> lives far easier when connecting to jabber servers all while 
> retaining the
> core strengths of the jabber protocol, the <presence> / <iq> 
> / <message>
> extensible stanzas, and the core stanza routing 
> functionality, there is no
> real reason to keep the <stream:stream> when it doesnt work as it was
> indended with Flash anyway.
> 
> Richard
> 
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