Ah, thanks a lot guys! Very informative, though I haven't understood wholly of some or even more of what you guys said :) But hopefully I get back to those soon. I'll keep an eye out.
Thanks! On 11/03/2015 11:09 PM, Michael McConville wrote: > Sukhbir Singh wrote: >> * Michael McConville: >> >>> Facebook stopped supporting XMPP and recently broke XMPP >>> compatability. This is likely the problem, and there isn't an easy >>> solution. James Geboski's libpurple plugin is the main open source >>> implementation of their new proprietary protocol, IIUC. >> This is also true. See: >> >> https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat >> >> But XMPP is still working and so is Tor Messenger. It seems like >> either the docs are outdated, or the service is stil running but maybe >> it's not being maintained, or whatever. >> >> We got in touch with FB to clarify this and are waiting to hear from >> them. > Recently, their XMPP server silently began assigning authenticating > users strings of random digits (e.g. [email protected], > approximately) as usernames. I remember a core Pidgin dev with a lot of > protocol experience saying that accepting this response is either unsafe > or a protocol violation (maybe both). However, most clients do, and > therefore still work with Facebook. > > Regardless, having a username like that isn't very usable. I think there > are new issues with fetching buddy lists, too. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
