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+-- 'Stage-Beta'
+-summary: 'XEP-0357: Cloud push notifications'
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# Introduction
This module enables support for sending "push notifications" to clients
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it will display it or wake up the app so it can connect to XMPP and
receive any pending messages.
-This protocol is described for developers in \[XEP-0357: Push
-Notifications\].
+This protocol is described for developers in [XEP-0357: Push
+Notifications].
-For this module to work reliably, you must have \[mod_smacks\],
-\[mod_mam\] and \[mod_carbons\] also enabled on your server.
+For this module to work reliably, you must have [mod_smacks],
+[mod_mam] and [mod_carbons] also enabled on your server.
Some clients, notably Siskin and Snikket iOS need some additional
extensions that are not currently defined in a standard XEP. To support
-these clients, see \[mod_cloud_notify_extensions\].
+these clients, see [mod_cloud_notify_extensions].
# Configuration
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# Internal design notes
App servers are notified about offline messages, messages stored by
-\[mod_mam\] or messages waiting in the smacks queue. The business rules
+[mod_mam] or messages waiting in the smacks queue. The business rules
outlined
[here](//mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2016-February/030925.html)
are all honored[^2].
-To cooperate with \[mod_smacks\] this module consumes some events:
+To cooperate with [mod_smacks] this module consumes some events:
`smacks-ack-delayed`, `smacks-hibernation-start` and
`smacks-hibernation-end`. These events allow this module to send out
notifications for messages received while the session is hibernated by
-\[mod_smacks\] or even when smacks acknowledgements for messages are
+[mod_smacks] or even when smacks acknowledgements for messages are
delayed by a certain amount of seconds configurable with the
-\[mod_smacks\] setting `smacks_max_ack_delay`.
+[mod_smacks] setting `smacks_max_ack_delay`.
The `smacks_max_ack_delay` setting allows to send out notifications to
clients which aren't already in smacks hibernation state (because the
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20 This is one of the essential changes in the MIX architecture, which is |
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49 # Compatibility |
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51 Briefly tested with Prosody trunk (as of this writing). |