[JDEV] Re: Ping protocol for Jabber

[Tony Cheung]

Hi,

Thanks. Sending a message to my own JID sounds like a workaround solution.

Is there any other solution? Does any existing Jabber client does any 
Ping mechanism?

Best Regards,
Tony Cheung

Trejkaz Xaoza wrote:

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> On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 12:49, Tony Cheung wrote:
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>>Is there any ping mechanism that we could used in Jabber for making sure
>>the connection and the server is alive?
> 
> 
> Normal keep-alives are typically a single space character flushed down the 
> stream.  However I know it isn't truly a ping. :)
> 
> The trivial way to ping is to send a message to your own JID.  If I'm right in 
> interpreting the semantics, a message with no body won't be displayed in a 
> client anyway, so as long as you tag the outgoing message with an 'id' 
> attribute and wait for the incoming message with the same id.
> 
> TX
> 
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