On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 05:49:55PM +0200, Michael Laukner wrote: > Hi, > I have been reading the discussions about Basic/Intermediate Client 2008 > because I was interested in file transfer interoperability. Although > there is a standard (XEP-96) file transfer does not work properly > within the XMPP famliy of clients. > > http://www.igniterealtime.org/forum/thread.jspa?messageID=152457#152457 > http://forum.psi-im.org/thread/4174 > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.jabber.standards-jig/10468 > > Wouldn't it be nice if file transfer worked as seamless as an e-mail > attachment? I would love if at least the main players (recommended > clients in jabber.org) could agree on an implementation guideline.
That surely would be nice, but standards@ currently works on a replacement, called jingle filetransfers. The spec is still not finished yet, and once it is out the bar for implementing filetransfer will be set up to implementing ICE (NAT traversal technique by the IETF, hooraay!). I currently wonder how much energy is spent on implementing a maybe soon (or not so soon?) outdated filetransfer method. But I can at least agree on your observation that filetransfer doesn't really work. I lately had someone behind some restricted firewall and we were unable to transmit a simple small image. I thought with IBB there is almost no way this wouldn't work (I used tkabber, but I don't know what he used). Maybe people think jingle with ICE will be the magical golden bullet to kill that problem (maybe at least standards@ thinks so). I hope that at least jingle filetransfer will be made compatible with SI in some way (maybe there is already a protocol in the tmp queue?). Robin
