[Fwd: Re: Ticket #6183 (in-band bytestreams filetransfers on XMPP)]

[Marcus Lundblad]

> Från: Marcus Lundblad <ml at update.uu.se>
> Till: Tobias Markmann <tmarkmann at googlemail.com>
> Ämne: Re: Ticket #6183 (in-band bytestreams filetransfers on XMPP)
> Datum: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:35:40 +0200
> 
> mån 2008-06-30 klockan 09:23 +0200 skrev Tobias Markmann:
> > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Marcus Lundblad <ml at update.uu.se>
> > wrote:
> >         FYI
> >         
> >         I've started on support for using XEP-0047 (IBB) as a fallback
> >         method
> >         for file transfers on XMPP.
> >         Right now it almost works as a "standalone" method (ie. when
> >         disabling
> >         support for socks5), it can complete a file transfer when
> >         everything
> >         goes well. It doesn't quite yet handle cancellation.
> >         Also it can't yet "take over" when socks5 bytestreams fail.
> >         
> >         And it is not exactly a speed deemon :)
> >         
> >         //Marcus
> >         
> >         
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> > Hi,
> > 
> > IBB will never be a speed deamon but is a reliable fallback for any
> > peer to peer file transfer method.
> > 
Indeed.

Now it works quite reliably. What needs to be done is to make it so that
it can revert to IBB when bytestreams fail.

As a test, yesterday I transfered a file of 2.4 MB, it came through in
one piece, in about 30 min. :)

//Marcus
> 
> > Cheers,
> > Tobias