[Standards] file transfer

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Richard Dobson wrote:
>> It's unclear exactly what you mean. You want a Jingle method as one
>> option in stream initiation, like this?
> 
> Not quite, it would be more like this:
> 
> <iq type='set' id='offer1' to='receiver at jabber.org/resource'>
>   <si xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/si'
>       id='a0'
>       mime-type='text/plain'
>       profile='http://jabber.org/protocol/si/profile/file-transfer'>
>     <file xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/si/profile/file-transfer'
>           name='test.txt'
>           size='1022'/>
>     <feature xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/feature-neg'>
>       <x xmlns='jabber:x:data' type='form'>
>         <field var='stream-method' type='list-single'>
>           <option>
>             <value>urn:xmpp:jingle:bytestreams</value>
>           </option>
>           <option>
>             <value>http://jabber.org/protocol/bytestreams</value>
>           </option>
>           <option>
>             <value>http://jabber.org/protocol/ibb</value>
>           </option>
>         </field>
>       </x>
>     </feature>
>   </si>
> </iq>
> 
> i.e. completely backwards compatible for all receiving clients, only
> clients that know about the jingle bytestream method would try to use
> it, others would fall back to traditional methods, all without needing a
> separate jingle file transfer offer mechanism with all the associated
> discovery and duplicate implementation and complexity that would arise
> from that.

Oh, I see. Yeah, that would probably work in a nicely
backwards-compatible way.

/psa

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