[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Jan 22, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Andreas Monitzer wrote:

> I spent some time thinking about the whole issue, and here's what I  
> came up with (we talked a lot on IRC about this, so this is not news  
> for IRC regulars):
>
> * Scrap the whole Adium codebase
> * Implement a clean and simple XMPP client for the iPhone based on  
> BOSH
> * Implement a simple single-user XMPP-over-BOSH server into Adium as  
> a plugin, exposing the configured accounts like gateways.
> * Let the iPhone connect to the Adium XMPP server
>
> When Apple supports the push API:
>
> * Implement a serverside push proxy
> * Add support for this proxy into the plugin mentioned above
> * Install that proxy on the Adium project server
> * Implement support for push notifications into the iPhone client
> * Let the plugin connect to that proxy
>
> That way, you solve a lot of problems for phone-based IM clients  
> (like the flaky connection and frequently changing IPs for example).

So the iPhone Adium client would connect to your home machine, routing  
incoming and outgoing messages through a running instance of Adium on  
it?

-Evan
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