Re: Timeout Question

Steven Millington wrote:
>> If two people have each other in there rosters and one crashes or drops the
>> line (modem) how long is it before the server (I assume the server) informs
>> the other client that that user is off line?

This really depends on the server. Typically, servers do "pings" to a client
every few minutes.. so hopefully the other person will get unavailable presence
in that time frame. If a server is NOT sending pings to the clients connected to
it... this could take up to 10-15 minutes AFTER the server tries to send them a
message (due to the TCP/IP timeout periods).

pgm.