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

[Peter Hosey]

On 2008-01-09, at 15:59, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, this is what we have: A specific Google Talk service, which is  
a subclass of the Jabber service.

The Connect Server (i.e., server to connect to) of a Jabber account  
defaults to the domain identifier of the JID, or jabber.org if the JID  
has no domain identifier (you can say simply “stpeter” in the username  
field—you don't need the “@jabber.org”).

The Connect Server of a GTalk account defaults to talk.google.com,  
regardless (IIRC) of the domain identifier from the JID. This is how a  
GTalk account defaults to the configuration described in your  
paragraph at the top of this message.