Re: Websockets

As you mentioned, there are a few projects like Movim, BuddyCloud, and 
OneSocialWeb that use XMPP. I think it's a great protocol and I'm glad 
people are using it for federation.

I think there might be a couple of reasons to use Websockets instead of 
XMPP:

  * XMPP comes with a mature underlying model for endpoints (accounts,
    servers, components) and payloads (messages, ims, presences). That's
    great if it maps onto what you want to do... otherwise you have to
    adjust.
    Websockets is much more like a bi-directional TCP/IP connection. It
    has practically no model whatsoever.
  * For non-XML payloads, e.g. JSON, you end up doing a lot of
    XML-wrapping with XMPP. With Websockets, you're free to send just
    about anything down the pipe.

I think there's room for experimenting with both mechanisms.

-Evan

On 12-09-17 10:22 AM, Mikael Nordfeldth wrote:
> 17.09.2012 16:07 skrev Evan Prodromou:
>> Has anyone else looked into using Websockets for server-to-server
>> distribution of activities?
>>
>> Seems like it could be very efficient.
>
> I personally have much more of an affinity for the XMPP protocol. 
> Should servers start communicating with anything other than HTTP 
> POSTs, XMPP communication would be a great solution.
>
> There's even XMPP over BOSH, should only HTTP communication be 
> available for some reason: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0206.html
>
> Also it would be well-aligned with the current efforts of networks 
> such as Movim that build social webs on the XMPP protocol.
>
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