[Standards] Messages to unsubscribed contacts and resources

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Tomasz Sterna wrote:
> On Wt, 2007-12-11 at 10:28 -0700, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> You should keep sending to the bare JID until you receive a reply from
>> a full JID, then start sending to the full JID.
> 
> What is the rationale for this behavior?
> I mean, what advantage does it have over sticking to bare JID sending?

Because that's what it means to be in a chat session with someone -- you
have a FullJID-to-FullJID connection, as it were.

And remember that these messages are not necessarily human-readable
text. What if you're sending a file via In-Band Bytestreams? Does half
the file go to one resource and half to another? Ick.

I could write up some scenarios about this if people are really
interested. And in any case I'll define it more precisely in the next
version of rfc3921bis and then people can have something more stable to
comment on.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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