[jdev] Multiple domain negotiations with SASL?

Matthias Wimmer m at tthias.eu
Tue Apr 17 08:23:58 CDT 2007


Hi Artur!

Artur Hefczyc schrieb:
>> Wasn't that your concern? If you thought about regular stanza routing:
>> SASL needs one connection per direction as well. So two TCP connections
>> for a full-duplex interconnect.
> 
> Actually I was refering to Janne's statement:
> 
> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 08:09, Janne Savukoski wrote:
>> So, I guess the dialback has then some scalability advantages over
>> SASL. Naturally, supporting multiple domain connections over a single
>> TCP session lets you cut down the number of sessions to a fraction.

In which he is right in that with dialback you can authenticate multiple
pairs of domains for the same connection. You could have amessage.eu
sending stanzas to jabber.org and amessage.info sending stanzas to
users.jabber.org on the same connection if dialback is used.


Matthias

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