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

[Johann Romefort]

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>Yes, I see the point now. XMLSocket is limited to ports above 1024, so
>this is another added benefit as well
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Not anymore since player 7.0.19:

http://www.powersdk.com/ted/2004_02_01_archive.php#107581266010365014

>It seems to me that, if we were to try to make this a generalized proxy
>for other clients besides Flash, we will still have to deal with the minor
>issue of determining if it is a Flash client (or any other client that
>appends a zero-byte to outgoing data) and if so, handling it accordingly.
>I personally would like to see it generalized as well, so that it can be
>of the greatest benefit to the community.
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>Now, the question is: Who, besides me, would like to continue the planning
>phase and see this thing to fruition? I'd imagine we should take the
>details of it all off-list at some point. I'll gladly organize the effort
>if need be, but I acknowledge that my technical skills on the server side
>are a bit lacking for me to implement a working version on my own.
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This is of interest for me...Anyway, I m not sure that I can be of any 
help concerning implementation
as my server side skills are quite limited too.

>A formalized publicly available document or JEP outlining the proxy
>control protocol and the details of it all would of course be best -
>allowing the open source community to have it's own implementation and
>independent commercial vendors to have perhaps implementations that they
>can bundle with their servers.
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Yes, this of course seems to be the best solution, and I m willing to 
help in discussions.

Johann

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