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Re: [rtcweb] Facebook is not SIP

Neil Stratford <neils@belltower.co.uk> Thu, 20 October 2011 09:36 UTC

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On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>wrote:

> 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/<https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat/>
>

I believe that is just for interop with external applications and not used
by their own web applications, though I may be wrong.

http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/31/EugeneLetuchy-ErlangatFacebook.pdfis
an interesting read.

Neil

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