Facebook Chat over XMPP

[Evan Schoenberg, M.D.]

On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Paul Aurich wrote:

> And Joe Hildebrand spoke on 02/10/2010 05:12 PM, saying:
>> +1. It looks like the main protocol task is adding the X-FACEBOOK-PLATFORM
>> SASL mechanism into libpurple.  While we're in there, it would be great if a
>> SASL authentication failure caused an error to bubble up, rather than
>> waiting for a network error when the socket gets disconnected.
>> 
> 
> They support DIGEST-MD5, which works well enough.  I'm not sure there's
> a need to add X-FACEBOOK-PLATFORM support.

In fact, unless there's a big win to X-FACEBOOK-PLATFORM (do you get access to some other level of contact info on your facebook buddies or something?), I think it'd be best not to support it.  Why encourage use of a nonstandard extension when a standard one should work perfectly well?

-Evan
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://adium.im/pipermail/devel_adium.im/attachments/20100210/dea514e0/attachment-0002.html>