[TriLUG] Jabber server outage

[Joel Ebel]

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?