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
