MSN accessible over XMPP

[Thijs Alkemade]

On 15 sep. 2011, at 00:05, Thijs Alkemade wrote:

> As you might have seen already: http://xmpp.org/2011/09/microsoft-adds-xmpp-support-to-windows-live-apis/
> 
> With some hard-coded hackery to fake the custom authentication I've managed to sign in. Although I don't know exactly how Facebook's auth works, it seems pretty similar to me (open a webview with an URL, get a token and use that to sign in).
> 
> From the little bit of testing I did, it appears this works: sending messages, some avatars, status messages, etc (though it seems display name and real name are swapped).
> And this doesn't: file transfers, federation.
> 
> So yeah, it seems to be almost as good as libpurple's msn support as of recently. ;)
> 
> Thijs

Just noticed: adding contacts doesn't work (gives a jid-malformed, probably because they translate email addresses into their own random JIDs) and neither does moving a contact from one group to another (gives a feature-not-implemented error).

So, pretty similar to Facebook in that regard...

Thijs
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