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[Joe Hildebrand]

On 2/12/10 1:02 AM, "Colin Barrett" <colin at springsandstruts.com> wrote:

> On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 11, 2010, at 09:45:03, Joe Hildebrand wrote:
>>> The big win is that people won't have to figure out what their JID is.
>> 
>> Their JID is <facebook-username>@chat.facebook.com. This should be trivial
>> for us to fill out automatically; the user need only enter their Facebook
>> username.
> 
> It's possible we could use Facebook's API to do this discovery automatically.
> I'm not terribly familiar with it, but considering the user is going to give
> us their password, it seems likely we could ask them FB to return their FB
> username. We might even be able to repurpose (or at least examine) some of
> their iPhone code.

That's *exactly* what their X-FACEBOOK-PLATFORM SASL mechanism does, except
without us actually needing to see the password.