Sharing¶

Share rich content over OTR, allow apps to have XMPP/OTR chat inside the app.

Requirements¶

• Secure
• Serverless (or more precisely, opaque to the XMPP server)
• Ability to share and discover arbitrary data types
• Fine grained control

Design¶

• Create data streams over OTR (using new TLVs for HTTP-like request/response)
• Support a restful API
• Follow the tent.io example: https://tent.io/docs
• Allow discovery of peer content
• Third-party apps as content handlers/providers
• Third-party apps can create XMPP/OTR chats, UI inside the app, communication handled by Gibberbot

Examples¶

• Peer A:
  

  GET /gallery/albums/India-2012/index
  Request-Id: ...
  

• Peer B:
  

  200 OK
  Request-ID: ...
  
  { path: "/albums/India-2012/sunset1.jpg", action: "new", size: 203992 }
  

• Peer A:
  

  GET /gallery/albums/India-2012/thumbnail/sunset1.jpg
  Range: bytes=0-32767
  

Reference Documentation¶

• OTRDATA Specifications