Prosody (formerly lxmppd) is a
cross-platform XMPP server written in
Lua
Lua or LUA may refer to:
Science and technology
* Lua (programming language)
* Latvia University of Agriculture
* Last universal ancestor, in evolution
Ethnicity and language
* Lua people, of Laos
* Lawa people, of Thailand sometimes referred t ...
. Its development goals include low resource usage, ease of use, and extensibility. Prosody uses the default XMPP ports, 5222 and 5269, for client-to-server and server-to-server communications respectively.
History
Prosody development was started by Matthew Wild in August 2008
and its first release, 0.1.0, was made in December 2008.
Prosody was initially licensed under the
GNU General Public License (version 2), but later switched to the
MIT License in its 3rd release.
Notable deployments
The XMPP Standards Foundation runs Prosody o
xmpp.org and uses the chatroom feature for meetings for various XSF teams.
Identi.ca the micro-blogging service uses Prosody to deliver IM notifications.
Remember the Milk
Remember the Milk (RTM) is an application service provider for Web-based task- and time-management. It allows users to manage tasks from a computer or smartphone, both online and offline. Created in 2004 by a two-person Australian company, it no ...
uses Prosody to deliver IM based reminders.
Collabora runs Prosody on
proxies.telepathy.im to provide file transfer proxy lookup for
Telepathy
Telepathy () is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was first coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic W ...
(and therefore
Empathy).
Peter Saint-Andre (the executive director of the
XMPP Standards Foundation
XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is the foundation in charge of the standardization of the protocol extensions of XMPP, the open standard of instant messaging and presence of the IETF.
History
The XSF was originally called the Jabber Software ...
) has run Prosody on http://stpeter.im.
See also
*
Comparison of XMPP server software
References
External links
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The Prosody project's source code repositoryRTC Quick Start Guide
explains how to set up all the components needed for real-time communication, including Prosody as the XMPP server
Instant messaging server software
Free software programmed in Lua (programming language)
Software using the MIT license
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