Does Openfire support UDP connections (instead of TCP) from clients? If yes, how can I connect from a client to the server. If no, is there a workaround? We definitely need UDP connection from a mobile chat client instead of a TCP connection because of the inherent “keep-alive” packets sent in case of TCP to maintain the connection thus eating up a lot of bandwidth and battery .
Is there any other XMPP server (freeware or commercial) that supports UDP client connections?
Thanks in advance for any responses.
No you can’t connect to Openfire using UDP packets. I haven’t heard of any way to connect to an XMPP server using udp (but it might exist). I think your
best chance to get something working fine on a mobile device is to use http-binding (BOSH).
I know that on mobile phone TCP implementation is not good and mobile operators blocks most of the port. HTTP is your best chance on a mobile phone to get a reliable connection.
Link to the Xep
http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0124.html
Yann,
I had seen something on BOSH and seems we might have to go that way.
Thanks for the info.
–Dharmveer