Re: Jabber broken in 1.0.1 & Fire CVS?

On Jun 10, 2004, at 3:49 PM, Evan Jones wrote:
> On Jun 9, 2004, at 18:53, Evan Jones wrote:
>> I'm trying to log in to a private Jabber server that has been set up 
>> here recently, and it doesn't seem to let me (Unauthorized errors).
>
> It turns out that it *is* a bug in Fire:
>
> Fire will always try to do digest authentication. This is incorrect, 
> as some servers do not support digest (for example, my server that 
> uses PAM). What Fire should do is follow the Jabber specification, and 
> ask the server what authentication types it supports:
>
> JEP-0078: Non-SASL Authentication
> http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0078.html
>
> I'm about to submit a really rough patch which does that to the patch 
> tracker. It's a huge hack and doesn't do error checking as well as it 
> should, but it works for me.
>
> However, Fire should *really* consider replacing its Jabber code with 
> one of the more maintained Jabber libraries, like maybe Acid, an 
> Objective-C framework:
>
> http://www.jabberstudio.org/projects/acid/project/view.php
>
> But I'm not the guy to do that. I'll just hack on what is already 
> there to make it work.

Thanks for the patch... I'll try to get this into TOT as well as the 
1.0.x branch.

I agree with you about switching to Acid; however this is a relatively 
large project in comparison to doing one-off bug fixes on our existing 
code.

-Jason



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