[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[Evan Schoenberg]

Andy wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2009, at 19:18, Jeffrey Melloy wrote:
>
>> That doesn't make sense, because most people don't have a home  
>> machine
>> constantly running and a firewall that would allow Adium's iPhone
>> client to connect. I read it as the Adium server running the proxy,
>> and the iPhone connecting to the Adium server. Which seems like a lot
>> of overhead for the server.
>
> That's another option, but then the Adium team would have to know  
> the account information for all iPhone Adium users, which is not an  
> option for me (some iPhone IM devs have done exactly that).

This theoretical proxy server would need to have some sort of login  
scheme - registration for Adium users making using of this iPhone app,  
with the same information in both Adium on the desktop and the iPhone.

> Yes, you would need to have an Adium client running on a machine  
> that's accessible from the Internet for that. Port forwarding on the  
> router would work, too, though (even via uPnP).

Seems like a lot of 'givens'... a fully serverside connectivity  
solution just seems cleaner and more reliable.  You mention that there  
are problems with serverside solutions that phoning home would  
overcome? Could you expand on that a little bit?

-Evan
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