How to use XMPP over BOSH

Question

So im a little confused about what excatly BOSH is. Is it a way to interact with the XMPP server using http? For example openfire uses BOSH at http://domain.com:7070/http-bind/

How do i use this URL ? What needs to be done?

Answer 1

Just a little googling of "BOSH XMPP@ gave me some result, especially two useful links close to the top:
XMPP Is Better With BOSH
Get XMPP - BOSH working with Ejabberd, Firefox and Strophe

BOSH (Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP) is a Comet like protocol that provides a method for developers to use XMPP by way of HTTP in their applications

XMPP is asynchronous event based protocol, and uses pooling for those needs. And BOSH (Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP) is a transport protocol that emulates a bidirectional stream between two entities (such as a client and a server) by using multiple synchronous HTTP request/response pairs without requiring the use of polling or asynchronous chunking (Wikipedia :)
For better understanding read articles above, I'm sure you can find more articles related to this topic.

Answer 2

BOSH is defined by XEP-206.