This is a quick update post to my post from yesterday. The GSoC part came a little short because of my OMEMO reflections and because I only worked on one topic the last week, so this is intended as a kind of supplement.

Today I got my SOCKS5 code working again! I can send and receive both from and to local and external proxy servers. It was previously not working because I missread the XEP. I thought that one party only connects to a proxy after the activation element was received, while in fact the connection must be established beforehand. Also on the sender side I closed my OutputStream after writing the data on it. This caused the receiver to fail opening an InputStream because the socket was closed. It took some time and Googling to find out that closing the OutputStream also closes the socket. Unfortunately I’m not having a “established” implementation which I can test my code against. If you know of an app/messenger which supports Jingle FT 5, please let me know 🙂

My next steps will be writing integration tests. At some point I lost track of tests, so I’m a little bit behind on that front. Creating those tests should greatly improve the stability of the code and make breaking changes more obvious. Also I’ll create a little NIO test application to make myself familiar with the NIO framework. Currently my focus lays on getting things to work in the first place, but in the end it would be nice to have data streams implemented using NIO. Another thing that I’ll tackle this week is getting jingles fallback mechanism in case of a failed transport to work. This should be pretty straight forward.

Then again I’ll hopefully soon spent some more time again on my plans for Jingle Encrypted Transfers. I hope to get a working prototype after the general Jingle File Transfer is finished.

Thats all for now. Happy Hacking 🙂