Peter. Good evening. On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:25:45 -0600 Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:
On 8/15/25 1:44 AM, Schimon Jehudah wrote:
Good day.
Question ========
Is it possible for XMPP clients to actively probe for presence?
Yes, but there's no good reason to do so, for reasons you quoted below from the RFC. What are you trying to achieve that cannot be achieved by letting the server do its work?
Peter
I am working on a publishing platform, based on Slixmpp, which has a profile page with current data (vCard information, status, activity and mood). https://codeberg.org/poezio/slixmpp/issues/3667#issuecomment-6562963 I already did something similar with project JabberCard. https://git.xmpp-it.net/sch/JabberCard/issues/1 Nevertheless, I am contemplating of having the XMPP client instance to run constantly, and cache data according to presence events, albeit doing so is more expensive than actively querying. https://git.xmpp-it.net/sch/Rivista/issues/19 Best, Schimon