On 16 October 2015 at 18:14, Phuong Vo <phn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am currently developing jabber client (vs Cisco Jabber server) and > facing a difficulty of getting presences of contacts (internal contacts, > not federated contacts) in search result if those contacts are not in my > contact list (not in roster). In term of XMPP protocol, could you please > help me how to achieve this feature? Any idea, direction are appreciated. > > You can't, by design, in standard XMPP.
The roster is not only a contact list, but also an access control list of which other jids are allowed to see your presence; so to see people's presence you'd need to add them to your roster. You do this by subscribing to their presence via a <presence type='subscribe'/> stanza. Dave.
