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Practical XMPP

By : Steven Watkin, David Koelle
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Practical XMPP

By: Steven Watkin, David Koelle

Overview of this book

XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) is a messaging protocol that enables communication between two or more devices via the Internet. With this book, developers will learn about the fundamentals of XMPP, be able to work with the core functionality both server-side and in the browser, as well as starting to explore several of the protocol extensions. You will not only have a solid grasp of XMPP and how it works, but will also be able to use the protocol to build real-world applications that utilize the power of XMPP. By the end of this book, you will know more about networking applications in general, and have a good understanding of how to extend XMPP, as well as using it in sample applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Practical XMPP
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Free Chapter
1
An Introduction to XMPP and Installing Our First Server

Hello (hello, hello...)! Is there anybody out there?


Finally, it would be great to know if our bot was alive and kicking, or being lazy and taking a break from its duties and having a rest. To determine this information, we'll need to use presence and presence subscriptions. First, we'll update our code to tell the server that we're available on connection, make a presence subscription request to our bot (which it will automatically accept), and then display the presence of the bot on screen.

Let's add a little piece of HTML to index.html and default the bot to showing as offline (you just can't get the right bots sometimes!):

<p class="bot-status">Offline</p> 

Now that we have this code in place, our first task is to send our own presence availability to the server once we've successfully logged in. We'll need to update the connected method to send our presence out:

var connected = function(details) { 
  $('p.connection-status').html('Online') 
  socket.send('xmpp...