Hi guys! Are there any updates regarding Facebook chat not being able to work properly on Tor Messenger?
Thanks a lot! Looking forward to hear from you guys! On 11/04/2015 07:53 AM, Qaz wrote: > 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 either the docs are outdated, or the service is stil running but maybe 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
