Dave Cridland wrote:
> On Tue Jun 16 08:32:39 2009, Dan Brickley wrote:
>> I'm crossposting this to the XMPP Social list and the W3C SocialWeb
>> XG list, since the intro in http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/06/16/
>> has some interesting motivation re social network and data
>> portability, and I've lately been wondering about design decisions
>> where I'm setting up personal/domestic computing APIs and feel
>> drawn to XMPP rather than HTTP mainly due to NAT/Firewall traversal
>> issues: XMPP services on a laptop can be universally addressed,
>> unlike HTTP services. So I wanted to ask - is there a XEP spec for
>> proxying HTTP over XMPP? Would this be relevant to Opera Unite
>> scenarios such as the following?
>
About file sharing, I plan to release a file server XEP proposal based
on XEP-0265 at the beginning of July. The idea behind it is similar to
the UPnP AVServer: browse and access file from another client.
> Alternately, you could write something that actually rewrote the HTTP
> requests into XMPP stanzas, for a more native-XMPP feel - so HTTP
> methods and header fields would become XML elements within stanzas.
> It would probably be more efficient, but I'm less than convinced it'd
> be worth the effort.
I'm playing with HTTP, Jingle and XMPP in my head for a long time. The
question is: what do we want? Why do we want it?
1. We don't want HTTP over something, we just want to display HTML sites
and stuff like that. What about
<iq type='get'>
<get xmlns='something' resource='index.html'/>
</iq>
<iq type='result'>
<xhtml>
<img href='[email protected]'/>
</xhtml>
</iq>
And to make it faster, maybe merge XEP-0265 into it.
2. We want HTTP as it is over Jingle
http://www.tzi.de/~dmeyer/jingle-http.html
3. We want to merge HTTP and XMPP somehow
<iq type='get'>
<http xmlns='something'>
<get resource='index.html'/>
</http>
</iq>
<iq type='result'>
<http xmlns='something'>
<header name='foo'>bar</header>
<header name='mime-type'>text/html</header>
<data>
BASE64
</data>
</http>
</iq>
Why is it usefull? Maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE-HTML
Just my mind having strange ideas....
Dirk
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