[jdev] File transfer: "deficiency in the protocol"?

[maqi at jabberstudio.org]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Mattias Campe wrote:

> I like Jabber very much, but file transfer has always been a problem. I
> don't have much time (now) to do research on this, but I've tried a JAJC
> <-> Trillian Pro, a Psi <-> Exodus and a Psi <-> Trillian Pro file
> transfer. Others tried a Trillian Pro <-> Trillian Pro. All of them
> didn't work.

Of course you have to use clients which support the new file transfer
JEPs. Also, without error messages/XML it is not possible to say what
caused the problems.

> I've read (more like a "quick look" due to lack of time) the Psi-forums
> and what I've read on [1] was "This is a deficiency in the Jabber
> protocol, what can I say? I tried to argue for this extension almost two
> years ago, but it didn't work out."

It would probably help not to quote without context. Infinity said this
concerning the problem that a Jabber client can't query the server for its
IP (which is not directly related to file transfer).

Regards