[jdev] Re: XMPP Ping method?

[Remko Troncon]

> I'm a bit worried about CPU/bandwidth explosión, nevertheless. And
> mobile bandwidth, that pay per byte.

Not that I have experience with mobile devices, but if you use zlib,  
the overhead of doing a ping should reduce to one byte plus a few  
bytes of padding every call in every direction. If you do a ping  
every minute, this bandwidth overhead is neglectable compared to the  
bandwidth overhead of presence updates alone. If you do polling and  
send/receive more than just the ping in one request, the impact of  
the extra bytes of padding diminishes as well. A while ago, someone  
claimed that zlib on mobile devices was not a good thing, but I'm not  
sure if there was proof of that.

cheers,
Remko