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mod_export_skeletons: Document archive name override option This was why I went with argparse to begin with, so of course it was forgotten when I got to writing docs
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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` true Enable Stream Management on server connections? *Experimental*
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60 `smacks_s2s_resend` false Attempt to re-send unacked messages on s2s disconnect *Experimental*
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61 `smacks_max_unacked_stanzas` 0 How many stanzas to send before requesting acknowledgement
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62 `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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63 `smacks_max_hibernated_sessions` 10 The number of allowed sessions in hibernated state (limited per user)
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64 `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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66 Compatibility
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67 =============
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70 trunk Works
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71 0.11 Works
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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