Presence and IntComm WG

[Peter Saint-Andre <>]

Neal McBurnett wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 03:29:40PM -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> > Neal McBurnett wrote:
> > > I noted that the history that I got in our multi-user chat session
> > > today was out-of-order.  It looks like it is a known bug, not even
> > > limited to chat rooms.  See
> > >
> > > http://www.igniterealtime.org/issues/browse/JM-835
> > >
> > > Surprising....
> > Which server implementations are used along the communications path?
>
> Thanks again for your prompt and informative input!!
>
> I'm connected using via my gmail jabber id to 
>
> which I think runs wildfire.  (And I'm using gaim v 1.5.1cvs).
> Is it possible to check server version information remotely?

Most software supports this:

http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0092.html

> > The XMPP specifications require that a server must guarantee in-order 
> > delivery through a server, but not all implementations comply because 
> > it's non-trivial.
>
> I see this related thread also:
>  http://blogs.sun.com/mridul/entry/in_order_delivery_in_xmpp
>
> but a more authoritative spec reference or discussion would be of
> interest.

See the first paragraph here:

http://www.xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc3920.html#rules

We have endeavored to further clarify that in rfc3920bis:

http://www.xmpp.org/internet-drafts/draft-saintandre-rfc3920bis-02.html#rules

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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