It's common practice to subscribe to transports and have them send you presence, but it's not mandated.
You are correct, there is no real way to know what a JID is without some type of discovery system. --temas On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 15:43, Luke Tucker wrote: > > lets say there's a user already registered with some transport. > When the user logs on, is there anything that the protocol guarantees > the transport will send to the user when its OK to start > sending messages through it (ie it logged on to the service for you > and won't ignore your messages silenty)? Some seem to send presence, is > this mandated, a courtesy, something that you can make happen for > any given transport? > > Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that you can't really > unambiguously determine whether a 'JID' is intended for a transport or > not unless you're a host. eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] is this a jabber user > joey on the jabbers server joop.sloop.net or joey through the joop > transport on sloop.net (in which case you have to make sure you're > register with it and that its ready)? I'm working with some automated > jabber stuff if context helps make sense out of the questions. > > > Thanks, > > - Luke > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
