[Interop] online testing environment

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 
>> b. Client developers (and for that matter server developers) will
>> register at a website like https://interop.xmpp.org/ (no, that doesn't
>> exist yet). They will choose a preferred username to be set up at each
>> server instance. That way a given developer on, say, the Psi project
>> will be able to log in as psidev at ejabberd.interop.xmpp.org and so on.
>> We'll need to figure out some algorithm for password creation.
>>
>> 4. Make it secure. All connections (c2s and s2s) will be protected via
>> TLS. To make that easier, the XSF will issue certificates (both domain
>> and, in the future, end-user) through its intermediate certification
>> authority. Only authorized users (registered as above) will be allowed
>> to use the system. No in-band registration. Etc.
> 
> Then how do we do interop testing of s2s with Dialback, if we're only
> using TLS?  I propose every server run both:
> 
>    djabber.ssl.interop.xmpp.org
>    djabber.cleartext.interop.xmpp.org
> 
> Then we can force all interactions of SSL-vs-not between any two products.

True.

> Or how do we test client<->server in-band registration?  (admittedly much
> less of an issue than the TLS one...)

Well. The other approach is to whitelist IPs, I guess. But that seems 
more painful.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
XMPP Standards Foundation
http://www.xmpp.org/xsf/people/stpeter.shtml

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