Connect devices with XMPP (and also Ad-Hoc commands!)

[sjehuda]

Connect devices with XMPP (and also Ad-Hoc commands!)

[sjehuda]

@calmh please join the discussion I have started at https://forum.syncthing.net/t/xmpp/22095 and I hope to better explain this matter.

[Neustradamus]

@sjehuda: Please prefer the good go-xmpp link, it is always in developement:

• https://github.com/xmppo/go-xmpp

[sjehuda]

Thank you @Neustradamus. I have corrected my previous comment.

[calmh]

That all sounds nice, but it sounds like something else than Syncthing. The TLS integration and device IDs are quite ingrained to how things work.

[sjehuda]

TLS is mandatory in XMPP since a decade ago or so.

Albeit XMPP is used everywhere, be it in MySpace, ICQ, VK, Juick, Faceboogle and other brands I do not want to advertise, the industry does much to suppress it because it has all the best potentials of instant messaging, file sharing and content sharing (by content I mean documents such as HTML documents).

You may find libraries at:
https://mellium.im/
https://github.com/FluuxIO/go-xmpp
https://github.com/xmppo/go-xmpp (preferred)

I highly encourage to be open to XMPP and to make it an additional mean of communication.

It will be beneficial to you and to me for the VERY longer term.

If XMPP was popular today, http/html (aka "web") browsers would be barely used today.

[calmh]

That's probably the right place to discuss it, yes.