Fwd: [jdev] Is there any way to make sure that there will be a response to presence stanza

[Dave Cridland]

On Fri Apr 20 09:42:04 2007, Sergej Andrejev wrote:
> No, the problem is as follows. I want to get all my available  
> contacts. To do so I send <presence /> stanza. The problem is that  
> the script will hang here because there will be no reply from 
> server  if there are no users sharing there presence with me. In a 
> few words  I send a presence stanza and waiting for a reply which 
> will never  arrive because there are no contacts. As far as I 
> understand PHP  doesn't not support non-blocking SSL streams.
> Is there a way that my presence will always return something or do 
> I  have to write everything in events and there is no other way?

There's no other sane and sensible way... But...

If, for some reason, you're unable to use non-blocking sockets, the 
solution is to ensure that data will be present within a short time 
period after you start to poll.

The simplest method for that would be to send an <iq/> before you 
poll. You want to send it somewhere that you can reasonably trust to 
respond, and you don't want it to harm anything, so I'd opt for a 
XEP-0199 to the server.

This is, of course, a major hack, and I'd much recommend avoiding it 
if at all possible.

Dave.
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