Openfire provides full support for the XMPP protocol defined by RFC 3920 and RFC 3921. In addition to full XMPP support, Openfire also provides support for numerous extensions to XMPP that are defined through the XEP process at xmpp.org. This document provides a summary of that protocol support and is updated for every Openfire release.
This document is broken down into the following sections:
The basic suite includes full support of the XMPP RFC's as well as the most common extensions. The table below details the level of support for the requirements set by XEP-0073: Basic IM Protocol Suite.
| Specification | Supported |
|---|---|
| RFC 3920: XMPP Core | Yes |
| RFC 3921: XMPP IM | Yes |
| XEP-0030: Service Discovery | Yes |
| XEP-0077: In-Band Registration | Yes |
| XEP-0078: Non-SASL Authentication | Yes |
| XEP-0086: Error Condition Mappings | Yes |
The intermediate suite includes the full basic suite as well as more advanced features in common use by XMPP clients. The table below details the level of support for the requirements set by XEP-0117: Intermediate IM Protocol Suite.
| Specification | Supported |
|---|---|
| XEP-0073: Basic IM Protocol Suite | Yes |
| XEP-0004: Data Forms | Yes |
| XEP-0020: Feature Negotiation | No |
| XEP-0045: Multi-User Chat | Yes |
| XEP-0047: In-Band Bytestreams | Yes |
| XEP-0065: SOCKS5 Bytestreams | Yes |
| XEP-0071: XHTML-IM | Yes [1] |
| XEP-0096: File Transfer | Yes |
| XEP-0115: Entity Capabilities | Yes |
The table below lists all XEPs supported by Openfire and indicates which XEPs are part of the Basic or Intermediate Protocol Suites listed above. XEPs that only require client-side support are omitted.
| Specification | Suite |
|---|---|
| XEP-0004: Data Forms | Intermediate |
| XEP-0012: Last Activity | - |
| XEP-0013: Flexible Offline Message Retrieval | - |
| XEP-0030: Service Discovery | Basic |
| XEP-0033: Extended Stanza Addressing | - |
| XEP-0045: Multi-User Chat | Intermediate |
| XEP-0049: Private XML Storage | - |
| XEP-0050: Ad-Hoc Commands | - |
| XEP-0054: vcard-temp | - |
| XEP-0055: Jabber Search [2] | - |
| XEP-0059: Result Set Management | - |
| XEP-0060: Publish-Subscribe | - |
| XEP-0065: SOCKS5 Bytestreams | Intermediate |
| XEP-0077: In-Band Registration | Basic |
| XEP-0078: Non-SASL Authentication | Basic |
| XEP-0082: Jabber Date and Time Profiles | - |
| XEP-0086: Error Condition Mappings | Basic |
| XEP-0090: Entity Time | - |
| XEP-0091: Legacy Delayed Delivery | - |
| XEP-0092: Software Version | - |
| XEP-0096: File Transfer | Intermediate |
| XEP-0106: JID Escaping | - |
| XEP-0114: Jabber Component Protocol | - |
| XEP-0115: Entity Capabilities | Intermediate |
| XEP-0124: HTTP Binding | - |
| XEP-0126: Invisibility | - |
| XEP-0128: Service Discovery Extensions | - |
| XEP-0138: Stream Compression | - |
| XEP-0163: Personal Eventing via Pubsub | - |
| XEP-0175: Best Practices for Use of SASL ANONYMOUS | - |
| XEP-0203: Delayed Delivery | - |