i am able to attach to a connection within a 60 sec window. anything above this the connection is non responsive.

is this a strophe limitation or ejabberd limitation?

thanks.

ejabberd controls how long a connection can be unused before it is terminated. This is probably configurable, or you could add support to strophe for session pause which allows you to tell the server how long you plan to pause.

thanks for the reply... i looked at ejabberd config and could not find a connection timeout in the file, any pointers on what i should be looking?


This is the what I'm trying to achieve,
As soon as a user gets authenticated the user should be able to send and receive XMPP messages (like in facebook, where as soon as i login chat is enabled).

so, i would like to put sid and rid into the database, when a user gets authenticated, sid & rid will come back and the user is ready to make XMPP requests, immediately upon authentication.

So there is no specific pause time, user can come back in a few mins, hrs or even days. is this feasible?

i'm planning to create a service to create sid and rid for users and put them in the database, is there an easier way to achieve instant XMPP connection like in facebook?

Thanks,

It's not feasible or desirable to store the sid/rid and keep an open connection for more than a few minutes. One reason for this is that any messages the user receives while they are away will potentially disappear. If they are offline, those messages will get stored on the server.

If you just want the startup time to be minimized, you can simply use HTTP pre-binding to return a fresh sid/rid in a single request, at which point the client will be ready to chat. There's no reason that it needs to be the same as the old sid/rid.

See chapter 12 for an example of this.

i did not understand this chapte the first time i read it, it makes sense now.
thanks for the pointers, i'll try this technique out.

i'm an asp.net developer and would like to create an c# class similar to the code you have in boshclient.py to create xmpp connections from server pages. is there some documentation about this file? will be helpful.


thanks,

You can read about how to create BOSH sessions in XEP-0124 and XEP-206.

http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0124.html
http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0206.html