[rabbitmq-discuss] STOMP & expiration

Mon Aug 22 10:13:02 BST 2011

Lionel,

On 22/08/11 10:07, Lionel Cons wrote:
> It seems that RabbitMQ does not handle the "expires" STOMP header.
>
> Although this is not in the STOMP spec, it's commonly used in
> JMS-compliant brokers to handle expiration.
>
> Is there any plan to support message expiration via STOMP?

Is that header set on a per-message basis? If so then Rabbit won't 
support that any time soon.

With AMQP we support a per-queue setting that controls message expiry. 
See http://www.rabbitmq.com/extensions.html#queue-ttl.

Regards,

Matthias.