Configuration variables:

prebind

Use this option when you want to attach to an existing XMPP connection that was already authenticated (usually on the backend before page load).

This is useful when you don’t want to render the login form on the chat control box with each page load.

When set to true, you’ll need to make sure that the onConnected method is called, and passed to it a Strophe connection object.

Besides requiring the back-end to authenticate you, you’ll also have to write a Javascript snippet to attach to the set up connection:

$.JSON({
    'url': 'mysite.com/xmpp-authenticate',
    'success': function (data) {
        connection = new Strophe.Connection(bosh_service_url);
        connection.attach(data.jid, data.sid, data.rid, converse.onConnected);
    }

The backend must authenticate for you, and then return a SID (session ID) and RID (Request ID), which you use when you attach to the connection.

fullname

If you are using prebinding, you need to specify the fullname of the currently logged in user.

bosh_service_url

Connections to an XMPP server depend on a BOSH connection manager which acts as a middle man between HTTP and XMPP.

See here for more information.

xhr_user_search

There are two ways to add users.

• The user inputs a valid JID (Jabber ID), and the user is added as a pending

contact. * The user inputs some text (for example part of a firstname or lastname), an XHR will be made to a backend, and a list of matches are returned. The user can then choose one of the matches to add as a contact.

This setting enables the second mechanism, otherwise by default the first will be used.

auto_subscribe

If true, the user will automatically subscribe back to any contact requests.

animate

Show animations, for example when opening and closing chat boxes.