[jdev] Re: JIDs in chat rooms (Avatar and other user info)

[Peter Saint-Andre]

In article <11D121AB355B69448D3A9F2132D2A3AA4201D4 at niobe.BlueHands.de>,
 "Heiner Wolf" <wolf at bluehands.de> wrote:

> >> Would it be possible that MUC answers on 
> >> behalf of the user's server. So that the requesting client could
> treat 
> >> the room-JID of the user like a real JID and the MUC translates JIDs
> and 
> >> proxies user data. 
> > 
> > Given that I might join room at conference.example.com but my 
> > real JID is 
> > actually stpeter at jabber.org, I don't see how 
> > conference.example.com is 
> > going to proxy for jabber.org -- but maybe I don't understand your 
> > suggestion.
> 
> I guess the MUC knows your real JID. It could forward iq-get to certain
> namespaces to the user's server and forward the iq-result with the same
> namespaces to the client. Exchanging JIDs. 

Ah, I would call that "IQ forwarding". It is mentioned here:

http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0045.html#bizrules-iq

I don't know if mu-conference does that, though.

/psa