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mod_conversejs: Disable automatic BOSH/WS endpoint discovery Converse.js 7.0 will enable this by default, but when using this module the BOSH and WebSocket endpoints are provided in the generated HTML, so automatic discovery is not needed and unlikely to work without an additional module.
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2 labels:
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3 - 'Stage-Alpha'
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4 summary: 'XEP-0198: Reliability and fast reconnects for XMPP'
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5 ...
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7 Introduction
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8 ============
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10 By default XMPP is as reliable as your network is. Unfortunately in some
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11 cases that is not very reliable - in some network conditions disconnects
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12 can be frequent and message loss can occur.
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14 To overcome this, XMPP has an optional extension (XEP-0198: Stream
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15 Management) which, when supported by both the client and server, can
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16 allow a client to resume a disconnected session, and prevent message
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17 loss.
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19 Details
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20 =======
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22 When using XEP-0198 both the client and the server keep a queue of the
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23 most recently sent stanzas - this is cleared when the other end
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24 acknowledges they have received the stanzas. If the client disconnects,
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25 instead of marking the user offline the server pretends the client is
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26 still online for a short (configurable) period of time. If the client
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27 reconnects within this period, any stanzas in the queue that the client
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28 did not receive are re-sent.
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30 If the client fails to reconnect before the timeout it will be marked as
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31 offline like prosody does on disconnect without mod_smacks.
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32 If the client is the last one for this jid, all message stanzas are added to
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33 the offline store and all other stanzas stanzas are returned with an
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34 "recipient-unavailable" error. If the client is not the last one with an
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35 open smacks session, *all* stanzas are returned with an "recipient-unavailable" error.
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37 If you deliberately disabled [mod_offline], all message stanzas of the last client
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38 are also returned with an "recipient-unavailable" error, because the can not be
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39 added to the offline storage.
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40 If you don't want this behaviour you can use [mod_nooffline_noerror] to suppress the error.
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41 This is generally only advisable, if you are sure that all your clients are using MAM!
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43 This module also provides some events used by [mod_cloud_notify].
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44 These events are: "smacks-ack-delayed", "smacks-hibernation-start" and
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45 "smacks-hibernation-end". See [mod_cloud_notify] for details on how this
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46 events are used there.
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48 Use prosody 0.10+ to have per user limits on allowed sessions in hibernation
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49 state and allowed sessions for which the h-value is kept even after the
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50 hibernation timed out.
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51 These are settable using `smacks_max_hibernated_sessions` and `smacks_max_old_sessions`.
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53 Configuration
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54 =============
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56 Option Default Description
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57 ---------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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58 `smacks_hibernation_time` 600 (10 minutes) The number of seconds a disconnected session should stay alive for (to allow reconnect)
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59 `smacks_enabled_s2s` false Enable Stream Management on server connections? *Experimental*
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60 `smacks_max_unacked_stanzas` 0 How many stanzas to send before requesting acknowledgement
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61 `smacks_max_ack_delay` 30 (1/2 minute) The number of seconds an ack must be unanswered to trigger an "smacks-ack-delayed" event
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62 `smacks_max_hibernated_sessions` 10 The number of allowed sessions in hibernated state (limited per user)
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63 `smacks_max_old_sessions` 10 The number of allowed sessions with timed out hibernation for which the h-value is still kept (limited per user)
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65 Compatibility
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66 =============
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69 0.10 Works
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70 0.9 Works, no per user limit of hibernated sessions
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71 0.8 Works, no per user limit of hibernated sessions, use version [7693724881b3]
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75 Clients
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76 =======
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78 Clients that support [XEP-0198]:
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80 - Gajim (Linux, Windows, OS X)
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81 - Conversations (Android)
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82 - ChatSecure (iOS)
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83 - Swift (but not resumption, as of version 2.0 and alphas of 3.0)
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84 - Psi (in an unreleased branch)
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88 [7693724881b3]: //hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/raw-file/7693724881b3/mod_smacks/mod_smacks.lua
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89 [mod_offline]: //modules.prosody.im/mod_offline
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90 [mod_nooffline_noerror]: //modules.prosody.im/mod_nooffline_noerror
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91 [mod_cloud_notify]: //modules.prosody.im/mod_cloud_notify