Sitting on a bench outside the coffee shop this afternoon, I think I finally figured out how Jabber instant messaging can be connected to Hep. I’m putting my thoughts up here for comments. This is a first draft. Let me know what you think.
- You create a Jabber account. Say joesmith@jabber.org
- You set up some message destinations in Hep: your weblog, your advogato diary.
- Hep will log into Jabber using your account, once for itself, and once for each destination you’ve got set up. For each login it uses a different Jabber resource: joesmith@jabber.org/Hep, joesmith@jabber.org/Weblog, joesmith@jabber.org/Advogato.
- You give Hep a list of Jabber accounts it should allow posts to come from.
- Now anyone can send messages to joesmith@jabber.org/Hep. These messages go to your Hep Inbox. The /Weblog and /Advogato connections only accept messages from the accounts you’ve specified. These messages get routed to the appropriate destinations.