Re: [rtcweb] Facebook is not SIP

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Thu, 20 October 2011 09:46 UTC

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2011/10/20 Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>:
> On 10/20/11 11:23, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When two Facebook users chat via web, they are already using a
>> signaling protocol in-the-wire, which one? The *custom* signaling
>> protocol Facebook designed.
>
> They're using XMPP: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat/

It changes nothing. If RTCweb decides a standard in-the-wire signaling
protocol different than XMPP we are also forcing facebook to use a
protocol different than XMPP for audio/video signaling (in-the-wire).

Anyhow, this is what I capture from the network when I send a IM
message ("hello") to other user visiting Facebook website:

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POST /ajax/chat/send.php?__a=1 HTTP/1.1'
Host: www.facebook.com'
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0a1)
Gecko/20111017 Firefox/10.0a1'
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8'
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5'
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate'
DNT: 1'
Connection: keep-alive'
X-SVN-Rev: 460802'
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8'
Referer: http://www.facebook.com/?sfrm=1'
Content-Length: 399'
Cookie: datr=ZuyfTjurvmsqvYVBDcXF8u; c_user=104442654509775; L=2;
lu=RgQytVtJJBQSvWUNOYzs0oQg; sct=1319153603;
xs=60%3A1c179a6dfb7f08277477b20e778bd391; p=112;
presence=EM319103631L212REp_5f1B04654409875F4EriF0CEstateFDutF1319103633096EvisF1H0EblcF0EsndF1ODiFA21B02602687525A2C_5dEfFA21B02602687525A2EuctF1319103618EsF0CEblFD55F1G319103604PEuoFD1B02602687525FDexpF1319103680370EflF_5b1_5dEolF0CCEalFD1B02602687525FDiF0EmF0CCCC;
wd=1366x675'
Pragma: no-cache'
Cache-Control: no-cache'
'
msg_id=1319103647568%3A3620978310&client_time=1319103646048&to=100002772687525&num_tabs=1&pvs_time&msg_text=hello&to_offline=false&to_idle=false&window_id=2877189837&sidebar_launched=true&sidebar_enabled=true&sidebar_capable=true&sidebar_should_show=false&sidebar_visible=false&post_form_id=449eb730c851e127f21d8a88b6a00667&fb_dtsg=AQC3StlW&lsd&post_form_id_source=AsyncRequest&__user=100002654409995
---------------------


Could you explain me where do you see "XMPP" there? Please note that
I'm speaking about the in-the-wire signaling between the webbrowser
and the server, and the above HTTP POST is the signaling message
Facebook is using for sending a IM.




> Unfortunately Facebook has chosen (so far) to not participate in federation.

Federation does not matter here. I'm just speaking about the
in-the-wire signaling protocol between web users visiting Facebook
website. Federation is another topic IMHO.


> Rest of message deleted, since it's based on a false premise.

Which premise?


Regards.


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Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>