Comments on: Strophe Preview: XMPP In JavaScript

By: Favio

Favio — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:23:16 +0000

Just for continuity, the above question is related to a problem that is already solved. I was having a simple DNS issue. I wasn’t aware that twistd generated a log file, and as soon as I realized that and read it, the situation was very clear to me.

By: Favio

Favio — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:21:57 +0000

Hello,

first of all, thanks for providing Strophe to the community!

I’ve been playing with the Strophe library found in the speeqe chat. I setup punjab as the INSTALL.txt said. However, I’m not getting any response (I’m looking at the firebug console). I’m using jabber14 as the server. Do you have to configure anything else in punjab to make it connect to the jabber server? or maybe I have to add punjab to the jabber server configuration? Pardon the noobness.

Also, what would be the more appropriate place to post these kind of questions?

By: metajack

metajack — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:05:31 +0000

@Brandon: The Strophe code connects to a BOSH service, usually at the same domain. Depending on the BOSH service, you may or may not be allowed to use any internet accessible XMPP server. For instance, with Punjab, you can connect to anything. With the BOSH service that comes as part of many XMPP servers, you will be restricted to that specific server.

You will always need to run a BOSH service somewhere for Strophe, but that service does not need to be heavyweight. For example, Punjab is quite lean on the CPU, which is what we wrote and use at Chesspark.

As to how to connect to a private jabber server, just restrict the jabber server from accepting connections from anything but the bosh service, which is running somewhere locally. You can let the BOSH service handle dns resolution, even if the resolution is to an internal IP address. Just hardcode the domain when you call the Strophe.Connection.connect() function.

By: Brandon Jones

Brandon Jones — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:23:52 +0000

I actually have a question regarding the nature of how exactly this would connect to a server, because I’m thinking of replacing our current means of Live Chat for our website. The way we do it now requires a server-side jabber application that gets run by the server based on a background call made when the user tries to connect, this program goes on to read a file system to check an XML file and update one too. But it’s more processor intensive than we’d like out of the web application, so we want to replace it.

The only thing I’m really curious about is how to allow connection to a jabber server on our network, but not publicly exposed. It wouldn’t be as simple as specifying server.domain.com or anything like that, we would need to supply an IP address. I’m not entirely sure how this works, and whether or not supplying the IP address to your API would allow for a BOSH connection to the server or not. Further guidance on this would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Brandon Jones

By: tofu

tofu — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:31:20 +0000

The Twisted BOSH client code is punjab.

http://www.butterfat.net/wiki/Projects/PunJab

By: Alex Clemesha

Alex Clemesha — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:36:55 +0000

This post:
http://metajack.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/xmpp-is-better-with-bosh/
answers the questions (and more!) I had in my previous comment.

Please, if you have the time, post the Twisted BOSH client code, or other examples.
Very cool stuff, thanks!

By: XMPP Is Better With BOSH « metajack

XMPP Is Better With BOSH « metajack — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:21:53 +0000

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By: Alex Clemesha

Alex Clemesha — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:55:13 +0000

This looks very nice.

As you may know, there are several (many?) half-baked comet implementations out there. Could you compare/contrast this verses a ‘pure comet’ solution (whatever that means .

I know you guys at Chesspark use Twisted a fair amount, could you go into more detail on how you connect the two (strophe twisted)? If that is in fact what you do.

Anyways, I’m anxiously waiting on some tutorials, etc
thanks!

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