[jdev] Embedding a XMPP stream within an IMAP stream, thoughts?

[Bruce Campbell]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Dave Cridland wrote:

> On Fri Jun 18 18:46:51 2010, Kurt Zeilenga wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 18, 2010, at 3:32 AM, Dave Cridland wrote:
>> 
>> >  A least abomination method for this would be to have a new protocol 
>> >  which acted as a multiplex and single authenticator, and then you could 
>> >  have that use proxy-auth to handle the connect/authenticate cycles of 
>> >  both IMAP and XMPP (and others).
>> 
>> BEEP?  :-)
>
> The worst thing about that is it actually makes quite a bit of sense.

Huh, I'd completely forgotten all about BEEP.  That might also work quite 
well.

-- 
   Bruce.