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

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Andreas Monitzer wrote:
> 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.

OK, that seems sensible. It's basically what I said about allowing the 
user to say "please connect to talk.google.com for my gmail.com ID" or 
whatever.

>> 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.

I have no objections to that approach. I'm not so much of a Jabber bigot 
that I need to see every XMPP service identified as such. What matters 
is the user experience.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/

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