Month: August 2017

  • Final GSoC Blog Post – Results

    This is my final GSoC update post. My name is Paul Schaub and I participated in the Google Summer of Code for the XMPP Standards Foundation. My project was about implementing encrypted Jingle File Transfer for the client library Smack. Google Summer of Code was a great experience! This is a sentence you probably read…

  • GSoC Week 11.5: Success!

    Newsflash: My Jingle File Transfer is compatible with Gajim! The Gajim developers recently fixed a bug in their Jingle Socks5 transport implementation and now I can send and receive files without any problems between Gajim and my test client. Funny side note: The bug they fixed was very familiar to me *cough* 😛 Happy Hacking!

  • GSoC Week 11: Practical Use

    You know what makes code of a software library even better? Client code that makes it do stuff! I present to you xmpp_sync! Xmpp_sync is a small command line tool which allows you to sync file from one devices to one or more other devices via XMPP. It works a little bit like you might…

  • GSoC Week 10: Finding that damn little bug

    Finally!! I found a bug which I was after for the last week. Now I finally got that little bas****. The bug happened in my code for the Jingle SOCKS5 Bytestream Transport (XEP-0260). SOCKS5 proxies are used whenever the two endpoints can’t reach one another directly due to firewalls etc. In such a case, another…

  • GSoC Week 9: Bringing it back to life.

    The 9th week of GSoC is there. I’m surprised of how fast time went by, but I guess that happens when you enjoy what you do 🙂 I’m happy to report that the third iteration of my Jingle code is working again. There are still many bugs and Socks5Transport is still missing, but all in…