What is Megaphone?

What is Megaphone?
The Megaphone project is about enhancing open source chat software. Specifically, the goal is to allow ejabberd to support 1,000,000 simultaneous users. See The Plan page for more details on how I plan to solve this problem. See the About this Blog page for more details on why I created this blog.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Another Perfectly Good Theory

Previously...
  • I solved the endless loop problem.
  • I noted that ECM is a piece of junk.
  • I noted that the megaphone replies were missing the content-length header.

After last time I had resolved to add a content-length header to the messages in the (as it now turns out) vain hope that it would allow pidgin to get a bit farther.  This hope was vain.  It did not come to pass.  Hence it was a vain hope.  

This is different from a vein hope in that it had nothing to do with blood flow.  If it were vein, then perhaps I could start a blog about vampires and angst; which, truth to be told, would not make it much different from this blog.  But I digress.  Also, I am trying to fill out a modest blog posting.

At this point I need inspiration.  As in other times when I am at this point, I turn to beer.  

One of the things that beer has given me is the idea of trying to create a very simple pass-thru that, very simply, just passes the data from the pidgin side to the ejabberd side.  I figure that if I can make it there I can make it anywhere.  It's up to you, New York, New York!

But I digress again.

Next time: the results of the pass-thru.

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