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

[Mattias Campe]

maqi at jabberstudio.org wrote:
> 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'll try to look for it. Sorry that I made this post, without having 
much time to figure things out, but file transfer seems just to important...

>>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).

Sorry, my fault :-s.

Mattias