[KLUG Members] live chat software

[bill]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 15:46, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> > How does this get through a firewall?  I understand how someone can
> > initiate a connection to get through their own firewall, but how does
> > the recipient get notified/connected?
> 
> They run the client;  in the case of Exodus (what we use on Win32) it
> sits in the system tray and pops up upon receipt of a message.  So the
> internal people run the client and it awaits connections.  

Got it.  Then set up a listening port through the firewall, all
copasetic. 

In our scenario, all connections would be one to one.

What if there's a dozen reps, each running the client, would each one
have it's own port or is there some other means to distribute incoming
connections to specific computers/users?

> The external
> people either run a client, either installed or downloaded on-demand
> from the site, 

Does this mean non-technical people (the human clients) have to manually
download and install something?  

Is the client software related to the browser?

> > client - firewall - internet/server/etc - firewall - recipient
> 
> You port forward the XMPP port through the firewall to the XMPP server.

So the XMPP server (on the internet) would initiate connections,
forwarded through the firewall, to the listening client(s).  

kind regards,

bill
> 
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