Hi,
I am working on a social network that should allow members to chat with visitors on the site. The concept is simple.
- Users who have registered signup get their own account with rosters
- When a visitor comes to the home page of the social network, he can see some of the online members of the community
- Now he should be able to initiate a chat with them, by clicking on their name.
I have already got members to chat with their roster mates. My question is, how can I get an anonymous user to chat with a member and exchange presence info with him?
I have successfully managed to create anonymous accounts, members accounts and even send messages from an anonymous user to other members. But I cant get presence information from anonymous-user to member or vice versa?
BTW, the chat is JS based.
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You're trying to break the XMPP model. Presence is an opt-in permission based system. You ask me if you can see my presence, I say yes. Generally my client will then automatically ask you if I can see your presence, and your client says yes. That's what the roster is -- yes's and no's to presence subscription requests.
You can make chat rooms (MUC, multi user chat) that are anonymous, as well as do presence in them. It's not a roster, though. It's the closest to what you're describing without going into crazy-land with pubsub, and I don't know if you could even bend that tool far enough to have anonymous roster entries.
Adil : Hi A.R . After a bit of research it seems to me MUC is the only sane way to go. Whats 'pusub', and where can i find more about it? Thnx for your reply.A. R. Diederich : Pubsub is short for "publish-subscribe". You use it to do things like offer data to people (geo location, music playing) and they subscribe to it. The XEP (XMPP Enhancement Proposal) is at http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html. In some areas a pubsub server is a PASS server -- publish and subscribe server, but that's getting off topic. Hmm, I may have been thinking of privacy lists, not pubsub. The XEP for pricay lists is found at http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html. You can use privacy lists to be "invisible" to some users, for example.Adil : Hi A.R. I looked into pubsub and its a bit more than i have time for (10th Jan!) . I think i'll be going with MUC and private rooms for my requirement. Do you have any suggestions that will help me do this faster. Any gotchas i should look out for? Thx, and i'll tick your answer.A. R. Diederich : No, nothing else to look for. Pubsub is a big XEP and I don't know if it'd work for you. I don't know if MUC will, either, but it's the closest thing there is to what you asked for.
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