Must be missing something

cycokris · November 20th, 2010, 01:02 AM

Hello, I just started reading your book, and am relatively new to the XMPP world. Your book is informative and very easy to read.

I copied the code out of the book myself to get a hang of the language. I attend a university that provides storage space for me. I use it as web hosting.

I have tried running the code provided, but could not get any of the status messages that the picture at the start of the chapter said i should be getting.

I figured there was some kind of syntactical error that I made somewhere, so I downloaded the code and used that directly, only changing the stylesheet and script links in the <head> portion as needed. This yielded the same results (or lackthereof).

I have made a Jabber.org account as well as downloaded ejabberd to try and host my own server locally. I am able to connect to it via an XMPP acct on Pidgin, so I know that it's working. I replaced your metajack.im server with:

admin@myserver:5280.xmpp-httpbind (as well as tried with the variation as suggested in a previous thread about chapter 3) to no avail.

I tried using jabber.org:5280.xmpp-httpbind as well (although i suspect that this may not be correct)

Still I am getting no status messages of any kind. Everything is hosted on the same machine (except the school's storage space that I'm hosting the .css, .html, .js and all other libraries on).

I'm not sure what else to do here! Any suggestions?

cycokris · December 2nd, 2010, 07:48 PM

So I got everything working. But I have a question. Everyone here seems to be using a local server of some kind.

I'm using an openfire server and currently am getting the sample code to work with

http://local-host:7070/http-bind/

Also, using pidgin works too. But if I wanted to connect to a server out of my LAN, where would I add, say, the IP address to that above code?

I can create a pidgin account that successfully connects to an openfire server outside of my network, I just don't know how to translate that relation for the BOSH service in the programs. What is the syntax for that?

metajack · December 5th, 2010, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by cycokris

Also, using pidgin works too. But if I wanted to connect to a server out of my LAN, where would I add, say, the IP address to that above code?

I'm not sure what you mean. If you use openfire as your connection manager, you can only connect to that openfire server. If you use a stand-alone connection manager such as Punjab, you can connect to third party XMPP servers and it finds where to connect based on the JID you supply to connect().

See my blog post about this.