[Gossip-dev] ANNOUNCE: Gossip 0.13

[Paul van Tilburg]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:35:24PM +0200, Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 02.08.2006, 12:47 +0200 schrieb Paul van Tilburg:
> > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 07:03:39PM +0200, Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote:
> > > Hi, 
> > > 
> > > I built gossip and run it and couldn't connect to any account except
> > > google talk anymore. The error is "Authentication failed".  With gossip
> > > 0.12 it's no problem. I test it with three different servers (from a
> > > friend, at work, and on localhost). All the server are jabberd 1.x
> > > servers. For the remote server I use SSL/TLS and on localhost no SSL.
> > 
> > I have the same problem.  However it seems to be architecture-related
> > When I build & run Gossip CVS on x86 machines, it logs in fine.  On
> > PowerPC I get 'authorisation failed'.
> 
> Did I said I run Ubuntu Dapper on a PowerPC? Which distribution/OS do
> you use?

I am using Debian GNU/Linux sid on PowerPC.

> Yesterday I try to investigate with the help of Martyn to the problem.
> Because of privacy issues I send my mails directly to Martyn.

I did so too. :)

> A summary:
> 
> - It's not a wrong password etc problem, the same credentials are used
> as before
> - gossip 0.10.2 and 0.12 works fine, again with the same credentials and
> on the same computer with the same environment (Ubuntu Dapper, loudmouth
> 1.0.3-0ubuntu1)
> - the problem is only with server, who authenticate via encrypted
> passwords (<digest/>) instead of plain text (<password/>). 
> - It's not related to the server version. I test it with jabber.org and
> jabber.ru, which use ejabberd, but asks for authentication via <digest/>
> - Loudmouth seems not be responsible: loudmouth wasn't changed and
> examples works fine.

I concur with all the above posed observations.

Paul

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