[jdev] Libpurple-based XMPP connector
Massimiliano Mirra
iolgzc102 at sneakemail.com
Sun Mar 30 10:57:26 CDT 2008
> Every time I think of external XMPP processes/processors, I end up
> thinking of embedding Lua or TinyScheme to handle XML. Unfortunately
> as far as I know neither has an XMPP library. I'm not sure that would
> be needed for Jingle, though (or at least for libjingle, see below).
>
> On another note, that is how a local transport based on something like
> bitlbee or libpurple might look like. Bitlbee even works like that
> already -- too bad it disguises itself as an IRC server instead of an
> XMPP server, or we'd already have a multi-network cross-platform
> cross-client local transports. :-)
After writing the above I started playing with the idea in C and Lua.
Lack of an XMPP library wasn't a big issue. So far it accepts an XML
stream, performs SASL (PLAIN) auth, and logs in to the foreign
network. I don't expect any major roadblocks.
Massimiliano
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