16 Jul
2024
16 Jul
'24
2:36 a.m.
On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 9:52 PM Tim Henkes <syndace(a)web.de> wrote:
I've been brainstorming a mechanism for offline
history transfer (i.e.
one client fetches the offline message history from another client). For
that, an encrypted direct client-to-client XML channel would be neat.
I’ve been planning to implement his for a very long time and do in
fact have the funding to do so I’m just trying to find the time.
I was planning on using "XEP-0247: Jingle XML Streams". I don’t think
the fact that the XEP is Deferred has any significant meaning. Many of
the A/V call related XEPs were deferred as well before we started
using them again. Whether or not the XEP needs modification we will
see while implementing it but from where I’m standing now I don’t see
anything wrong with it.
My plan was to first and foremost use WebRTC Datachannels as
transports which neatly solves the encryption issue. (This is also the
primary reason I've implemented file transfer over datachannels to get
familiar with the technology). In a later iteration one could
potentially implement jingle-xtls to also get Socks5 and IBB working
but Datachannels should provide enough to get started (and cover 95%
of use cases)
cheers
Daniel