First of all, your book is great. The examples work when hitting against your BOSH connection manager - http://bosh.metajack.im:5280/xmpp-httpbind

However, I wanted to take the next step and hit against a locally (desktop) installed instance of Openfire, using their Built-In connection manager.
I enabled the following with HTTP Bindings Settings on port 7070:
Clients can connect to this server using HTTP binding.
Allows BOSH clients with limited access to connect to the server

In the simple hello.js example I changed Strophe.Connection("http://bosh.metajack.im:5280/xmpp-httpbind")
to
Strophe.Connection("http://<local-machine>:7070/http-bind")

I can created some sample users and connect via Pidgin just fine. However, when I run the sample Hello app, it just hangs, not seeming to connect.

In Firebug console it is showing error 302 aborted

I am using Spring Source Tool Suite as an IDE for my hello application, which in turn fires up a local instance of Tomcat. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Thanks.

Thanks! I'm glad you like it.

Openfire is unique in that it requires you to use a trailing slash on the http-bind resource. Try:

Strophe.Connection("http://<local-machine>:7070/http-bind/")

Let me know if that does or doesn't help.

I added the trailing slash
and now I am getting different error showing up in Firebug

200 Aborted

XML Parsing Error: no element found Location: moz-nullprincipal:{8eead87c-3f20-427a-8ead-e5d8d2791768} Line Number 1, Column 1:

The post looks like this:
Any ideas?

Thanks again.

This looks like something is going wrong within the browser. Does it work if you disable firebug or if you turn Firebug's "Show XMLHttpRequests" option off in the Console tab (use the little arrow right next to the word 'Console').

I often find that Firebug and recent Firefox's break this particular functionality, and it has to be shut off for it to work correctly.

If that doesn't fix it, can you tell me some more information about your set up? Are you using CORS or flXHR? What is the URL of the page hosting hello.html (ie, is this a cross domain request)?

I am using flXHR. It is literally the exact hello example out of your book, with the only change 1 line of code to switch the pointer to a different connection manager.

http://d68dfzk1-lt:8089/app/hello.html is running from my local machine trying to access

http://d68dfzk1-lt:7070/http-bind/ from a local install of Openfire on the same machine.

It works against yours, but fails against mine. Is there something else I need to enable in Openfire?

Also, it seems to fail in IE, Chrome, and Firefox.

Thanks again for your help.

So I have gotten a little farther. If I use Apache to serve up the web pages locally, the client can talk to my local connection manager just fine. It is just when I run the html through my IDE which in turn is running tomcat that the client has issues communicating with my local connection manager.

In the end, I hope to build a Java web app that can talk to my back end as well as do messaging/presence from the client to client using Strophe and XMPP.

Still stumped, but at least a little progress....

That's very odd. The only thing I can think of is that it is setting the wrong mimetype for the Flash file or something. Once the code is all loaded, there is no difference where it is running from (as long as it's running from an http:// URL). So I suspect that one of the components isn't loading correctly.

Perhaps use curl to check the mimetypes of a few different kinds of files and see if they look ok?

You can try on with:

- var conn = new Strophe.Connection('/xmpp-httpbind');

If you work with Apache Server, go to apache\conf\extra\httpd-proxy.conf to add some configurations as follow:

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass /xmpp-httpbind http://127.0.0.1:7070/http-bind/
ProxyPassReverse /xmpp-httpbind http://127.0.0.1:7070/http-bind/

Hi~

Just got this book and i can't seem to display the text in the sample program in Chapter 3 - Saying Hello:The First Application.

I use Apache for my local server and downloaded the necessary libraries but still can't get "Connection established." to be displayed.

Am I missing something. Please help me out on this.

Thank you...

Without more info I won't be able to help you. What browser are you using? What's the URL of hello.html in your browser when you get this problem? What errors do you see in the JavaScript console?