This is about as innovative as a cheese sandwich using new cheese.
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 10.10.10.100]
on August 28, 2008 02:52 AM
Also, there's some misrepresentation.
IRC file transfer is done using the DCC (Direct Client-to-Client protocol) SEND service, which doesn't pass through the relay server except to send the filename and the IP & port of the serving computer (normally wrong if you're behind a NAT router).
While some IM clients do pass files through the server, a fair number also use P2P discovery and transfer protocols to perform the transfer – XMPP (what Google Talk uses) for example prefers out-of-band SOCKS5 transfers as described at http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0065.html
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This is about as innovative as a cheese sandwich using new cheese.
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 10.10.10.100] on August 28, 2008 02:52 AMIRC file transfer is done using the DCC (Direct Client-to-Client protocol) SEND service, which doesn't pass through the relay server except to send the filename and the IP & port of the serving computer (normally wrong if you're behind a NAT router).
While some IM clients do pass files through the server, a fair number also use P2P discovery and transfer protocols to perform the transfer – XMPP (what Google Talk uses) for example prefers out-of-band SOCKS5 transfers as described at http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0065.html
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