XMPP Ping timeout and Google Talk

[Sean Egan]

2008/5/14 Evan Schoenberg <evan.s at dreskin.net>:
> I've received multiple reports of and seen at least once myself instances in
> which talk.google.com simply doesn't reply to <iq type='get'
> id='purpled097aa0c'><ping xmlns='urn:xmpp:ping'/></iq>.

There is a chance this is related to the apparent libxml2 2.16.6 bug
where people weren't receiving messages because of some namespace
oddity. Do you not see the responses in the debug window at all? Were
these clients using this libxml2 version?

> Could we modify the ping timeout to reset whenever any traffic is received,
> not just the response to our ping?

Ethan points out why this wouldn't work, but it's probably worth
noting that we only *send* the ping if we haven't received anything in
some time, which should mitigate this somewhat.

-s.