[jdev] Keep alive packages?

[Ulrich Staudinger]

Mikael Hallendal wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Some users of Loudmouth have been reporting that their proxy servers
>close the connection if there is no traffic over the Jabber connection
>that's being proxied. 
>
>I've tried to find if there is some way of sending pings in the Jabber
>protocol but I haven't found anything. A user suggested that SMACK was
>sending a space character every 30 seconds but this sounds like a bit of
>an ugly solution.
>  
>
It's not an ugly solution, imo it's the preferred way, xml parsers will 
ignore whitespaces and if a parser ddoesn't, then it's not really a good 
parser.

regards,
ulrich