[jdev] Discovering the Federation.
Cedric Hyppolite
cedric.hyppolite at free.fr
Thu Aug 24 13:37:00 CDT 2006
Hi,
I am wondering if it's possible to discover the Jabber server
federation starting by only one jabber server.
I would like to put a jabber server name in the client, and ask the
server the list of other jabber servers it knows.
Then I could select one and ask him its features... The idea behind
this is to let a user new to Jabber browse the network to find a
jabber server providing all the features that he needs (gateway, user
registry, conference rooms) and then register an account in-band. In
a perfect world the server statistics (uptime, ping) would be
available through the discovery protocol, but I may be asking too much.
Is this server federation discovery possible with Jabber?
I have always thought that such a feature was missing from IRC,
especially with so many networks/servers available. So hopefully with
Jabber this is possible in some way.
I am currently using the Smack API, if such server federation
discovery is possible using specially crafted stanzas, an example
using Smack would be perfect.
Thanks in advance,
Cédric
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