[jdev] Transport suggestions

[Norman Rasmussen]

On 5/24/06, Bruce Campbell <list-jdev at vicious.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> > Phycon (a buddy of mine) talks [2] about XMPP transports as 'hat
> > racks' - providing the user the ability to login to many other xmpp
> > accounts via a transport.  (Very similar to how the pyirct transport
> > allows you to login to many irc networks at once)
>
> Huh.  Thats actually quite cool overloading the '^' character to seperate
> the destination JID from the proxied JID.  Putting on my security hat
> though, it exposes the proxied JID to view in the routing information,
> which is not good if you are running over a hostile network.  This can be
> worked around by also allowing an internal gateway identifier.

With the irc transport I allow people to choose an alias for each
account.  Basically it replaces the proxied jid, and keeps bandwidth
down.  So there's no need to have:
 juliet\40capulet.com^romeo\40.jabber.org at hatrack.montague.net
on romeo's roster because just :
 juliet\40capulet.com^j.org at hatrack.montague.net
would do. (or replace the j.org with whatever alias romeo wants when
he registers his jabber.org account with the hatrack)

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