[Standards-JIG] Closing idle streams

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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Carlo v. Loesch wrote:
> What is the popular or correct way to close an idle connection?
> 
> I noticed some jabberds will send a <connection-timeout/> error,
> then immediately close the socket.
> 
> This seems to be in accordance with the XMPP spec.
> 
> I also noticed some jabberds that would simply shutdown the
> socket without warning.
> 
> This doesn't seem to be in accordance with XMPP.
> 
> One way or the other, closing a TCP socket - instead of asking the other
> side to terminate it - raises the chances of data loss, so it is a not so
> good idea really. Am I missing something?
> 
> I also noticed XMPP isn't very precise on what is to be done
> under this circumstance.
> 
> Has this been discussed before? I looked at the TCP reliability
> discussion, but that doesn't apply to this issue.
> 

You are correct that this is not discussed in RFC 3920. We'll need to
add some text about it to rfc3920bis.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.shtml

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