Hello example connected user is always offline in openfire

babyfool · December 11th, 2010, 07:54 AM

Dear Author,

I really like your book. Ever since I learned the capability of XMPP your book is the 1st one that helps me understand how it works.

I was able to configure OpenFire on my own laptop and modified the Hello example to use local connection manager and connects to local OpenFire server. However, in the OpenFire admin console, I can see that the session made from the Hello.js is always shown as "Offline" under presence.

This is strange because if I make a connection using MatriX C# library, the user would show up online but if I make the connection using Strophe, it is always offline. Is there another command I have to call after Strophe's connection to make the user online?

What I am trying to do is to add a handler in Hello.js for so that when I send a message using a C# compiled executable, my web page will display that message.

Right now this doesn't work. When I send a message from C#, the web page displays nothing. It seems only able to handle messages from the server when I use the "send_ping" method from Strophe.

By the way, I did modify the Handler to use "null" for all the parameters so it should match and handle all stanza received from server. So maybe OpenFire simply doesn't send any stanza to Strophe connection due to the session is offline.

Thanks,
Jeffrey

metajack · December 11th, 2010, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by babyfool

I really like your book. Ever since I learned the capability of XMPP your book is the 1st one that helps me understand how it works.

Thanks! I'm glad you like the book, and I appreciate the feedback.

Quote:

This is strange because if I make a connection using MatriX C# library, the user would show up online but if I make the connection using Strophe, it is always offline. Is there another command I have to call after Strophe's connection to make the user online?

You can control whether you are online or offline by sending <presence> stanzas. Sending <presence/> will set you online and sending <presence type='unavailable'/> will set you offline. You can do this in Strophe with these commands:

Online:

Code:

connection.send($pres());

Offline:

Code:

connection.send($pres({type: "unavailable"}));

Quote:

What I am trying to do is to add a handler in Hello.js for so that when I send a message using a C# compiled executable, my web page will display that message.

Right now this doesn't work. When I send a message from C#, the web page displays nothing. It seems only able to handle messages from the server when I use the "send_ping" method from Strophe.

By the way, I did modify the Handler to use "null" for all the parameters so it should match and handle all stanza received from server. So maybe OpenFire simply doesn't send any stanza to Strophe connection due to the session is offline.

Messages will only get delivered to you if you are online. Otherwise the server with store them in offline message queue until you next come online.

My guess is that the C# library you are using automatically sends initial presence for you. There are plenty of cases where you don't want to send the initial presence immediately (for example if you want to set a negative presence priority), so Strophe doesn't make any assumptions about your intentions.

babyfool · December 11th, 2010, 10:44 PM

Thanks, after I send $pres() the user is online and is able to receive the messages sent from other client. This is excellent. Now I can push messages from my web server directly to the user instead of forcing the user to call an AJAX method every so many seconds to refresh a view.

Also, thanks for responding so fast to my question.

wenchiching · August 21st, 2014, 09:56 AM

this save me from try and error for 5 hours, really thanks!