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

[Mark Janssen]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Evan Schoenberg <evan.s at dreskin.net> wrote:
> Andy is using 'proxy' in a different sense than a 'proxy server'.  'proxy'
> in this sense means a program which stands in for the true connection. The
> setup would be:
> iPhone is 'available', whatever that means (Adium Mobile is running, for
> example): Messaging service –> Adium –> iPhone running Adium Mobile –> Adium
> –> Messaging service
> iPhone is 'unavailable' (another app is running on the iPhone, or the iPhone
> is out of service range): Messaging  service –> Adium –> Apple's server –>
> iPhone with Adium Mobile installed
> –>, each connection, may of course be routed in whatever way works:
> ethernet, wifi, through a proxy server, over EDGE, etc.

I understood that correctly; what I meant was that there might be a
problem in the "Adium -> Apple's server" part. I can imagine that
Apple allows only a couple of trusted servers to initiate the
connection to their push servers, i.e. not from every user's home
computer. But as I said, nothing is sure until Apple releases more
details.