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Re:XMPP, a comeback story by PaulHoule on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @09:08PM (#29261286)
On the battlefield you don't have good internet so the cycle of GET the HTML form and POST the fields is not reliable.

XMPP Forms are deeply asynchronous. I'd assume that the "blank form" already exists on the soldier's laptop and the message gets stored-and-forwarded until it gets to the destination.

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Re:XMPP, a comeback story by dragontamer on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:34AM (#29267346)
Isn't this just an issue of saving the POST until you successfully deliver it?

HTML is an async protocol. We pretend it is sync through a mountain of cookies. But innately, HTTP and HTML are all async. Without PHPSESSID, there really isn't an official way to correlate GETs with POSTs.

XMPP is synchronous. It's a chat interface. I'd assume it's be harder to do async comms with it. IIRC, it's a stream of XML that coincides with the servers state.

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