implement client support for muc push
Staying connected to a MUC room hosted on a remote server can be challenging. If a server reboots it will usually send a shut down notification to all participants. However even if a client knows that a server was shut down it doesn’t know when it comes up again. In some corner cases that shut down notification might not even be delivered successfully leaving the client in a state where it thinks it is connected but it really isn’t. The possible work around implemented in this commit is to register the clients full JID (user@domain.tld/Conversations.r4nd) as an App Server according to XEP-0357 with the room. (Conversations checks for the push:0 namespace on the room.) After cycling through a reboot the first message send to a room will trigger pubsub notifications to each registered full JID. This event will be used to trigger a XEP-0410 ping and if necessary a subsequent rejoin of the MUC. If the resource has become unavailable during down time of the MUC server the user’s server will respond with an IQ error which in turn leads to the MUC server disabling that push target. Leaving a MUC will send a `disable` command. If sending that disable command failed for some reason (network outage) and the client receives a pubsub notification for a room it is no longer joined in it will respond with an item-not-found IQ error which also disables subsequent pushes from the server. Note: We 0410-ping before a join to avoid unnecessary full joins which can be quite costly. Further client side optimazations will also surpress pings when a ping is already in flight to further save traffic.
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