[TriLUG] THe Promise of GAIM: Unfulfilled

[James Brigman]

GAIM won't transfer files with Yahoo IM either. I've never gotten it to
work right. Breaks my heart, since the promise of GAIM is exactly that
of open source: it works with all standards and should let you talk to
any IM system. 

Next meeting I'll be the guy in the back with the crying towel...

JKB

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 23:21 -0400, Joel Ebel wrote:
> The status of my investigation shows that GAIM is broken for 
> registration.  Despite having a register button, it doesn't even try. 
> It just tries to auth, obviously fails, and just gives up.  According 
> the RFC and JEP-0077, the jabber server is doing all of its duties, GAIM 
> just isn't trying to register.  Adium, I imagine, suffers from the same 
> problem.  I'll communicate with the jabberd maintainer to see if he has 
> thoughts about what's wrong, but GAIM's jabber support leaves something 
> to be desired.  Try a non-broken client like Psi.  It works on a Mac 
> too.  Other decent clients are Tkabber, Gossip, and maybe Kopete, but I 
> don't have much experience with them to know if they register properly.
> 
> Joel
> 
> Joel Ebel wrote:
> > I'm looking into this.  GAIM appears to be doing something wrong when 
> > registering a jabber account.  I'm investigating exactly what that is, 
> > but for now, the best I can suggest is to try a different client.
> > 
> > Joel
> > 
> > Benjamin Reed wrote:
> > 
> >> Joel Ebel wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> The jabber server is now running version 1.4.4 which has a number of
> >>> improvements.  Most notably it supports TLS on port 5222 now.  If your
> >>> client supports this, I highly recommend you use it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I've been unable to register a new account; GAIM spits back a "401 not
> >> authorized" response, and Adium just gives back a generic error message.
> >>
> >> What am I supposed to do to re-register an account?