Question

I’m interested in finding out the xml messages which are sent among two clients when a file is transferred from one to another(just for fun).

So far I’ve been finding out the xml messages involved in actions such as authentication, setting the status, sending a message etc. by using jabber.py – I modified xmlstream.py’s network write function to print the data just before it writes it to the network.

However, jabber.py does not provide functions for file transfer. Could someone:-

1. Suggest a Python library that does that?
2. Or, show me some place where the xml messages sent from client to client would be documented.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Take a look at

• XEP-0096: SI File Transfer
• XEP-0234: Jingle File Transfer

for details (Edit: about the XML).

Edit: I don’t know about the current support for these XPEs in Python libraries.