On 26/06/2006, at 10:11 PM, Norman Rasmussen wrote:

> On 6/26/06, Stian B. Barmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Both transports have the same priority, but different resource names.
>> Seems the one (darkstar) always is above the other  
>> (gajim_kontoret) in
>> pri. If one of these two goes away and the other is online then the
>> transport should be available in my humble opinion.
>
> RFC3921, Section 11.1.4.1:
>
>           For message stanzas, the server SHOULD deliver the stanza to
>           the highest-priority available resource (if the resource did
>           not provide a value for the <priority/> element, the server
>           SHOULD consider it to have provided a value of zero).  If  
> two
>           or more available resources have the same priority, the
>           server MAY use some other rule (e.g., most recent connect
>           time, most recent activity time, or highest availability as
>           determined by some hierarchy of <show/> values) to choose
>           between them or MAY deliver the message to all such
>           resources.
>
> (FYI: Google ignore the SHOULD, and always deliver (undirected)
> stanza's to all connected resources.)
>
> What's the logic in the transport at the moment with multiple
> resources? I assume it takes the highest resource's priority for the
> legacy status.  The question is: what does it do with multiple clients
> with the same priority (like google talk for example)?
>
> Surely it should remain available if _any_ of the highest priority
> clients are available.  If they're all away, then maybe use the
> oldest?
>
> FYI: The irc and yahoo transports use: highest, then oldest (i.e.
> connected the longest) - and ignore the status entirely.
>
> -- 
> - Norman Rasmussen
> - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> - Home page: http://norman.rasmussen.co.za/

Currently when there are two resources with the same priority, the  
chosen one is undefined. That's because the resources are stored in a  
hashtable.

It mentioned an order of <show/>. Is this specified anywhere? It  
wouldn't be too hard to sort based on this.

---

James

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