Flash XMLSocket

[Martin Atkins]

oliver oli wrote:
> Martin Atkins wrote:
>>> What's the quick summary of this protocol, for those of us that don't 
>>> know
>>> Flash?  Any pointers?
>>>
>>
>> According to the page at this huge URL:
>> <http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary860.html> 
>>
>>
>> it's a TCP connection where you send whole XML documents delimited by 
>> nuls.
> 
> XMLSocket is not limited to XML documents. You can send any data over 
> it. Every XMLSocket.send appends a NUL byte to the data. I don't know if 
> NUL bytes in XML streams are any problem for DJabberd (or other Jabber 
> servers).

NUL bytes are forbidden in XML, so I expect that it causes problems for 
most XMPP servers.

> 
> A Flash-Jabber proxy would be nice to have, but I don't know any. Would 
> DJabberd with a Flash connection plugin make a XMPP proxy for other 
> Jabber servers or is this a silly idea?
> 

You could probably build such a proxy on top of DJabberd, but I think a 
true proxy (that is, a server which just translates the encoding and not 
the content) would end up skipping almost everything DJabberd does; I 
guess the streaming XML parser would be useful, but other than that I 
can't think what else you'd borrow.

Writing a new DJabberd connection handler which talks directly to 
DJabberd's core probably wouldn't be that hard though, if you don't mind 
only being able to talk to DJabberd.