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| 6301 | 9 This module enables support for sending "push notifications" to clients |
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| 6301 | 12 As well as this module, your client must support push notifications (the |
| 13 apps that need it generally do, of course) and the app developer's push | |
| 14 gateway must be reachable from your Prosody server (this happens over a | |
| 15 normal XMPP server-to-server 's2s' connection). | |
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19 Some platforms, notably Apple's iOS and many versions of Android, impose |
| 6301 | 20 limits that prevent applications from running or accessing the network |
| 21 in the background. This makes it difficult or impossible for an XMPP | |
| 22 application to remain reliably connected to a server to receive | |
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| 6301 | 25 In order for messaging and other apps to receive notifications, the OS |
| 26 vendors run proprietary servers that their OS maintains a permanent | |
| 27 connection to in the background. Then they provide APIs to application | |
| 28 developers that allow sending notifications to specific devices via | |
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| 6301 | 31 When you connect to your server with an app that requires push |
| 32 notifications, it will use this module to set up a "push registration". | |
| 33 When you receive a message but your device is not connected to the | |
| 34 server, this module will generate a notification and send it to the push | |
| 35 gateway operated by your application's developers). Their gateway will | |
| 36 then connect to your device's OS vendor and ask them to forward the | |
| 37 notification to your device. When your device receives the notification, | |
| 38 it will display it or wake up the app so it can connect to XMPP and | |
| 39 receive any pending messages. | |
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41 This protocol is described for developers in [XEP-0357: Push |
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44 For this module to work reliably, you must have [mod_smacks], |
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45 [mod_mam] and [mod_carbons] also enabled on your server. |
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| 6301 | 47 Some clients, notably Siskin and Snikket iOS need some additional |
| 48 extensions that are not currently defined in a standard XEP. To support | |
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49 these clients, see [mod_cloud_notify_extensions]. |
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| 6301 | 51 # Configuration |
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| 6301 | 53 Option Default Description |
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| 55 `push_notification_important_body` `New Message!` The body text to use when the stanza is important (see above), no message body is sent if this is empty | |
| 56 `push_max_errors` `16` How much persistent push errors are tolerated before notifications for the identifier in question are disabled | |
| 57 `push_max_devices` `5` The number of allowed devices per user (the oldest devices are automatically removed if this threshold is reached) | |
| 58 `push_max_hibernation_timeout` `259200` (72h) Number of seconds to extend the smacks timeout if no push was triggered yet (default: 72 hours) | |
| 59 `push_notification_with_body` (\*) `false` Whether or not to send the real message body to remote pubsub node. Without end-to-end encryption, enabling this may expose your message contents to your client developers and OS vendor. Not recommended. | |
| 60 `push_notification_with_sender` (\*) `false` Whether or not to send the real message sender to remote pubsub node. Enabling this may expose your contacts to your client developers and OS vendor. Not recommended. | |
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| 6301 | 62 (\*) There are privacy implications for enabling these options.[^1] |
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| 6301 | 66 App servers are notified about offline messages, messages stored by |
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67 [mod_mam] or messages waiting in the smacks queue. The business rules |
| 6301 | 68 outlined |
| 69 [here](//mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2016-February/030925.html) | |
| 70 are all honored[^2]. | |
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| 6301 | 73 `smacks-ack-delayed`, `smacks-hibernation-start` and |
| 74 `smacks-hibernation-end`. These events allow this module to send out | |
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| 6301 | 77 delayed by a certain amount of seconds configurable with the |
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| 6301 | 80 The `smacks_max_ack_delay` setting allows to send out notifications to |
| 81 clients which aren't already in smacks hibernation state (because the | |
| 82 read timeout or connection close didn't already happen) but also aren't | |
| 83 responding to acknowledgement request in a timely manner. This setting | |
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| 6301 | 86 The new event `cloud-notify-ping` can be used by any module to send out |
| 87 a cloud notification to either all registered endpoints for the given | |
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| 6301 | 90 The config setting `push_notification_important_body` can be used to |
| 91 specify an alternative body text to send to the remote pubsub node if | |
| 92 the stanza is encrypted or has a body. This way the real contents of the | |
| 93 message aren't revealed to the push appserver but it can still see that | |
| 94 the push is important. This is used by Chatsecure on iOS to send out | |
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| 6301 | 99 **Note:** This module should be used with Lua 5.2 and higher. Using it |
| 100 with Lua 5.1 may cause push notifications to not be sent to some | |
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| 6301 | 104 trunk Works as of 25-06-13 |
| 6306 | 105 13.0 Works |
| 6301 | 106 0.12 Works |
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| 6301 | 109 [^1]: The service which is expected to forward notifications to |
| 110 something like Google Cloud Messaging or Apple Notification Service | |
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| 112 [^2]: [business_rules.md](//hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/file/tip/mod_cloud_notify/business_rules.md) |
