Re: future of in-band bytestreams
From: Jakob Schroeter <js@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:40:01 +0200 (CEST)
On Thu Apr 19 2007, Philippe Roger wrote:
> Hi Jakob,
>
> I am not using this implementation of IBB for user-to-user communication
> yet, but was thinking about using it, and my application indeed consists in
> transferring things that are not strictly in the realm of file transfers
> (eg pictures and files/attachments).
>
> I am not familiar with the <iq/>-based IBBs as you put it, so don't know
> yet what I'd be missing or gaining by a change in API.

Hi Philippe,

IBBs can be wrapped inside <message/> or <iq/> stanzas. The current 
implementation (re)uses the MessageSession infrastructure. However, this 
won't work so well with XEP-0095 (well, it would work, but its ugly anyway).

So if you're not using IBBs yet, you won't be missing anything. Instead you'll 
have the choice between IBBs and SOCKS5 bytestreams (XEP-0065), which might 
be of interest anyway in case your data is more stream-oriented.

cheers,
Jakob

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