[Psi-devel] account defaults don't work for google talk

[Trejkaz]

On Friday 02 March 2007 06:07, Remko Tronçon wrote:
> Regarding plaintext authentication, there are a couple of things we
> could do to make it work:
>  - Make the 'Allow plaintext auth' a combobox with the following
> options: Never, Always, Over an encrypted connection, and make 'over
> an encrypted connection' the default. I'm not sure if this is 'secure'
> enough as a default.
> - Add a warning 'your server only supports plaintext authentication,
> do you want to enable this?' with the optional 'don't ask me again for
> this account' checkbox. We could add to the message whether or not the
> connection is entrypted. This is probably the right thing to do.
> However, this is harder to code :-)

I would even say that even if the user has disabled plaintext auth, it should 
be used if the connection is secured because it isn't exactly "plaintext" at 
that point.

TX


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