[Standards] Proposed XMPP Extension: Jingle HTTP File Transfer

[Rachel Blackman]

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>> The XMPP Extensions Editor has received a proposal for a new XEP.
>>
>> Title: Jingle HTTP File Transfer
>>
>> Abstract: This document describes a content type used for  
>> transferring files with Jingle, using the Hypertext Transfer  
>> Protocol.
>>
>> URL: http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/jingle-httpft.html
>>
>> The XMPP Council will decide within 7 days (or at its next  
>> meeting) whether to accept this proposal as an official XEP.
>>
>>
>
> How is this related to jingle ?
> Looks more like a customization to oob ... we could actually fold  
> the listing/preview into oob (or an extension) such that they are  
> relevant to other modes of transfer too, not just http.

Because it's not really HTTP.  It's using HTTP syntax over a pseudo- 
TCP connection atop Jingle UDP, as I understand it.

iq:oob doesn't provide for a method to traverse firewalls, and while  
S5B does (proxies), proxies aren't run widely enough.  The idea here,  
as I understand it from the earlier conversation, is to deprecate  
stream-profile, S5B, IBB and all of that in favor of spurring  
adoption of the Jingle streaming method.  If clients use Jingle for  
file transfer, then they'll be better able to adopt the audio/video  
portions of Jingle too.  The hardest work -- the transport -- will  
already be done.

This can be used in other ways too, of course; you could hijack the  
HTTP methodology to, for instance, embed images in XHTML-IM messages  
('img' being theoretically supported) and share the image files  
without having to upload them somewhere else first.  Like AIM direct  
connect, pasting images into the message window.

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Rachel Blackman <rcb at ceruleanstudios.com>
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