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

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On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:07:49PM +0100, Remko Tronçon wrote:
> > Guess I should mention that the only thing that must be changed is
> > enabling plaintext.
> 
> I believe i recently added to that error message '(this may mean you
> need to enable plaintext authentication)', so that should at least
> help.
> 
> > Can't this be negotiated?
> 

The point of disallowing plaintext login is security, so no it can't
do automatically the right thing.

> 
> Regarding making Jabber connect to Google by default, we could also
> implement GOOGLE-TOKEN, as it is documented on their webpage i
> believe. This may even be the easiest thing to code, provided that Qt
> allows us to do https (which they should provide in the next Qt
> release i believe).
> 

GOOGLE-TOKEN doesn't give us anything security wise. The api is
plaintext over SSL. So we can use SASL PLAIN directly, nothing 
gained by going over https, only more possibility to get a SSL
cert checking wrong.

 - Martin