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Re: What I Need is a Universal Receptor Protocol

eng1ne — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:42:53 -0000

Oh man, very cool. I wish I was more of a developer, this is really good stuff. Thanks for digging up the links!

Re: What I Need is a Universal Receptor Protocol

DuckofDeath87 — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:43:03 -0000

I did a little more research. If you can find an XMPP server that supports
some certain extensions, you would be nearly to your goal of the open
receptor!

Namely,
http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html
http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0049.html
http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0002.html
http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0030.html

Some of those sound like it would really help your protocol. Especally that
subscribe publish one.

Re: What I Need is a Universal Receptor Protocol

eng1ne — Sat, 24 May 2008 09:06:19 -0000

Sweet! In fact, I used to manage an XMPP-enabled server at my last job, a product called CommuniGate Pro (basically an Exchange server clone). We weren't using that part of the software and it wasn't documented well, but definitely supported.

Thanks for giving me a direction to start looking in. I had completely forgotten about it. I guess that reveals an embarrassing lack of research on my part.

Re: What I Need is a Universal Receptor Protocol

DuckofDeath87 — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:05:02 -0000

XMPP. It is all about presence. Couple that with offline message retrieval (XEP-0013) and filetransfers (XEP-0096)
In theroy, a blog could also have a XMPP account. It could "message" its subscribers. if the server supported it, the server could send one message to a lot of folks.

My understanding is that it handles meta data well. I have never heard of it being use like this, but I think it could work. Couple it with a completely different GUI than most normal IM clients and you would be in business!

Best of all, the hard part is already done! There are already xmpp servers running.
There would still be a lot of work to get what you want, but I feel that your main thing is the push protocol, and XMPP gets that done.