[ale] Cross platform notification

[Pete Hardie]

XMPP is a fairly widespread protocol, and libraries exist for the
sending end to hook into for most languages

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:02 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> On 01/10/2014 06:16 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>> I was looking into notification methods that I could use for one of my
>> projects to send quick messages to multiple machines (pretty much every
>> desktop or mobile platform currently in use) on my local network.  I see
>> Growl seems to be available for nearly every platform and seems to be a
>> fairly simple protocol.  I just wanted to solicit opinions on this kind
>> of notification method.  The originating computer is going to be one of
>> the Linux machines and I've been experimenting with sending by bash
>> script which is nice, simple, and requires no libraries, just netcat.  I
>> might later write up a small transmitter in C but I think bash will
>> probably work well for now.
>
> Netcat is a HUGE!!!!!!! security risk. I wouldn't ever use it beyond POC and
> only on an air-gapped lab network.
>
> What sort of notifications?  Desktops, system to system, system to specific
> client?  system to any normal web-client?
> Any chance this will every be wanted over the internet in the future?
>
> And ... isn't growl commercial?  What is the fallback if it isn't available?
> What about non-GUI client machines?
>
> Is polling an option? If so, you could setup a REST web interface on a central
> box that clients can push and pull from. REST means it is trivial to make a
> client via a bash+curl script.
>
> XMMP? More effort to use (only slightly), but extremely flexible.
>
> Or place the messages into a file that every client has read access from. KISS
> does work after all.
>
> What are the authentication needs?
>
> What are the encryption needs? Anything sensitive involved .. even in the future?
>
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