Facebook Chat supports Jabber now

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Post by ashu » Wed, Feb 10, 2010, 7:43 PM UTC

Facebook Chat supports Jabber now
developers.facebook.com

Re: Facebook Chat supports Jabber now

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 10, 2010, 8:10 PM UTC

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Re: Facebook Chat supports Jabber now

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Post by mdasen » Wed, Feb 10, 2010, 8:12 PM UTC

So, from what I understand, this is a way for clients like Adium to connect to Facebook chat, but it isn't a way for things like Google Talk to interact with Facebook Chat. That's disappointing. It would have been nice if they announced that they're trying to get interoperability with other networks going.

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Post by evgen » Wed, Feb 10, 2010, 8:16 PM UTC

Jabber support for FB Chat is nice, but failing to support SSL/TLS is not really acceptable...

Re: Facebook Chat supports Jabber now

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Post by presto10 » Wed, Feb 10, 2010, 8:25 PM UTC

iChat: Add new account in Preferences, select type Jabber, enter username "@chat.facebook.com" (where username is selected in Facebook settings, and you need to logout from Facebook after that change). For password use Facebook password.

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Post by aaronblohowiak » Wed, Feb 10, 2010, 8:26 PM UTC

evgen wrote: post #4

Jabber support for FB Chat is nice, but failing to support SSL/TLS is not really acceptable...

When would you use FB chat and care about the privacy of the communication?

Re: Facebook Chat supports Jabber now

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Post by presto10 » Wed, Feb 10, 2010, 8:29 PM UTC

evgen wrote: post #4

Jabber support for FB Chat is nice, but failing to support SSL/TLS is not really acceptable...

Where does it say SSL/TLS is not supported?

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Post by ryandvm » Wed, Feb 10, 2010, 8:31 PM UTC

Kudos. Now will they follow through?

I'll be impressed if they indicate they're working towards full server-to-server as Google has done with their XMPP implementation.

Re: Facebook Chat supports Jabber now

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Post by compay » Wed, Feb 10, 2010, 8:35 PM UTC

aaronblohowiak wrote: post #6

evgen wrote: post #4

Jabber support for FB Chat is nice, but failing to support SSL/TLS is not really acceptable...

When would you use FB chat and care about the privacy of the communication?

At work, probably.

Re: Facebook Chat supports Jabber now

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Post by rmaccloy » Wed, Feb 10, 2010, 8:45 PM UTC

mdasen wrote: post #3

So, from what I understand, this is a way for clients like Adium to connect to Facebook chat, but it isn't a way for things like Google Talk to interact with Facebook Chat. That's disappointing. It would have been nice if they announced that they're trying to get interoperability with other networks going.

Most people who use FB chat are probably going through the FB site. Dealing with authorization/privacy/spam/abuse for federated users would be a pretty difficult UI/support challenge since it's not integrated with FB's existing friend/profile privacy concepts.