[jdev] XEP-0199 (XMPP Ping) to test reliability

[Sean Egan]

On Jan 21, 2008 10:38 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im> wrote:
> Right. I have no deep objections to using XEP-0199 -- we defined it to
> solve these problems! -- but you might want to be smart about how often
> you send a ping. Some feedback would be helpful about how often people
> think they need to send pings.

Pidgin sends a <ping/> every 60 seconds and times out the connection
if it doesn't get a response in 20 seconds.

-s.