[Standards] BOSH (was HTTP Binding) namespaces

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Ian Paterson wrote:
> Alex Gnauck and Mridul have independantly pointed out the fact that all 
> XEP-0124 implementations (including my own) do not add "jabber:client" 
> namespace declarations to the stanzas they pass through (despite the 
> fact that all the examples in XEP-0124 include the namespace). This is 
> for a very good reason, since the connection manager is then able to 
> forward everything transparently between the client and server. However 
> the result does not conform with the schemas (or examples).
> 
> To allow transparent forwarding while staying true to the schemas, I'm 
> considering editing the schemas and the examples in XEP-0124 and XEP-0206:
> 
> 1. The schema defined in XEP-0124 will be renamed from 
> 'http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind' to 'urn:xmpp:bosh' and all the 
> examples will be changed accordingly.

Doesn't that break backwards-compatibility?

> 2.The schema defined in XEP-0206 will be renamed from 'urn:xmpp:bosh' 

It's urn:xmpp:xbosh right now (not "bosh").

> to 
> 'http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind' 

I'm confused. :)

> and I will *copy and paste* the 
> content of the 'jabber:client' schema and the content of the schema 
> defined in XEP-0124 into that schema!

Can't we simply import them?

> Therefore all the stanzas in the examples in XEP-0124 will include 
> "jabber:client" default namespace declarations, but these will be 
> omitted from the examples in XEP-0206 since everything will be covered 
> by the default namespace. In addition the "xmpp:" prefix will be omitted 
> from the examples in XEP-0206.
> 
> These changes will ensure that all existing (and future) implementations 
> magically become fully compliant with *XEP-0206* (even if not with the 
> schema defined in XEP-0124).

Sounds like a good thing.

> In the future the schema in XEP-0206 will need to be updated to reflect 
> any changes to the 'jabber:client' schema or to the schema defined in 
> XEP-0124, but those are likely to be stable.

Right. But see above on import.

> Finally, I could swap the names of the two documents, so any references 
> to XEP-0124 or literature that claims an implementation is XEP-0124 
> compliant do not have to be changed.

So XEP-0124 would become "XMPP Over BOSH" and XEP-0206 would become "BOSH"?

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
XMPP Standards Foundation
http://www.xmpp.org/xsf/people/stpeter.shtml

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