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

[Stelian Iancu]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Mark Janssen <praseodym at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

If that is the case, wouldn't it be possible for the Adium project
itself to provide such a server that sits in between? Or it would be
to much to ask? :-)

BR,
Stelian