[Adium-devl] Ticket #8787 (XMPP cert checking)

[Andreas Monitzer]

On Jan 09, 2008, at 23:12, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

> Hmm, I sense confusion. :)

yep :)

> A JabberID always includes a hostname (technically in XMPP  
> terminology, a "domain identifier").

That's not the hostname I was talking about. In addition to the JID,  
Adium provides a separate field to specify the host to connect to.  
This allows connecting to a server when the server's DNS is  
misconfigured (which is frequently the case, since 99% of DNS admins  
have never heard of SRV and the A record points to the web server, not  
the XMPP server) or the local DNS can't handle SRV records.

> Aha, so basically you'll do what (I think) iChat does: provide a  
> special configuration for Gmail that says "please connect to  
> talk.google.com even though my JID has gmail.com in it". Correct?

Yes. The main issue is that most people don't know that gtalk is XMPP/ 
Jabber, so we would have people asking for gtalk-support, even though  
the Jabber-support is there and works fine with talk.google.com.  
That's why this service is in the list, and this can be used for not  
displaying their configuration error to the enduser.

>
andy