[Adium-devl] Steve's WWDC presentation and instant messaging

[Mark Janssen]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Andreas Monitzer <am at adiumx.com> wrote:
> Perhaps this could also be implemented into Adium, so that the app
> acts as a proxy for the program running on the iPhone. This app also
> wouldn't have to implement all networking protocols, just one, like
> XMPP-over-BOSH (CFM, that's your area!) in order to connect to the
> Adium app running on the user's Mac.
>
> This would also allow to mitigate connection drop issues (that's a
> major problem on mobile connections), since Adium would stay connected
> and cache the messages until the iPhone is reachable again.
>
> Of course, this could also be a background process running on a Linux
> server somewhere.

Now this is a wild guess, but I think Apple will use some kind of
trusted connection between it's servers and the developer's
notification servers. This would mean that it won't be possible to use
any proxy (i.e. one running on the user's computer) but just a trusted
bunch of servers.

However, maybe one of the big guys (Google?) will launch a
XMPP-enabled service, which allows some kind of proxying. But that's
yet another speculation. The API won't be available until September
either.