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mod_vjud: Better docs for vjud_mode
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2 labels: 'Stage-Beta'
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3 summary: Subscribe to MUC rooms using the HTML5 EventSource API
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6 Introduction
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9 This module and its docs shamelessly forked from mod_pubsub_eventsource.
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11 [Server-Sent Events](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events)
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12 is a simple HTTP/line-based protocol supported in HTML5, making it easy
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13 to receive a stream of "events" in realtime using the Javascript
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14 [EventSource
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15 API](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventSource).
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17 EventSource is supported in [most modern
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18 browsers](http://caniuse.com/#feat=eventsource), and for the remainder
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19 there are 'polyfill' compatibility layers such as
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20 [EventSource.js](https://github.com/remy/polyfills/blob/master/EventSource.js)
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21 and [jquery.eventsource](https://github.com/rwldrn/jquery.eventsource).
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23 Details
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26 Subscribing to a node from Javascript is easy:
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28 var source = new EventSource('http://muc.example.org:5280/eventsource/myroom');
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29 source.onmessage = function (event) {
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30 console.log(event.data); // Do whatever you want with the data here
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31 };
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33 ### Access control
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35 Be warned that this module currently performs no access control. It will expose
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36 the messages of ALL rooms on the host it is loaded on. This may be changed in
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37 future revisions.
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39 ### Cross-domain issues
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41 The same cross-domain restrictions apply to EventSource that apply to
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42 BOSH, and support for CORS is not clearly standardized yet. You may want
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43 to proxy connections through your web server for this reason. See [BOSH:
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46 more information.
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48 Configuration
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51 There is no special configuration for this module. Simply load it onto a
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52 MUC component like so:
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54 Component "muc.example.org" "muc"
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55 modules_enabled = { "muc_eventsource" }
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57 As it uses HTTP to serve the event streams, you can use Prosody's
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59 control how/where the streams are served.
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61 **Note about URLs:** It is important to get the event streams from the
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62 correct hostname (that of the MUC host). An example stream URL is
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63 `http://muc.example.org:5280/eventsource/myroom`. If you need to
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64 access the streams using another hostname (e.g. `example.org`) you can
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65 use the `http_host` option under the Component, e.g.
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66 `http_host = "example.org"`. For more information see the ['Virtual
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67 Hosts'](https://prosody.im/doc/http#virtual_hosts) section of our HTTP
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70 Compatibility
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77 Trunk Works
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