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On 6/6/09 3:15 AM, Dave Cridland wrote:
> On Sat Jun  6 02:54:44 2009, Brian Cully wrote:
>> Sorry, on my phone so I can't do proper inline replies.
>>
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but preserving presence on the server 
>> until a subsequent iq or message stanza leads to dos attacks via 
>> resource consumption. Is that not what you were advocating?
> 
> Well, I'm assuming there's details to be worked out. That attack is
> instantly mitigated by allowing the server to flush down presence after
> a timeout, or when it becomes "big", or just "because".

Sure, I expect that the server would always need to be Smart[tm] about
how it implements any such feature.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/

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