[Wocky] jwgc changes for Athena
Greg Hudson
ghudson at MIT.EDU
Mon Feb 27 17:19:07 EST 2006
I have been looking for ways to reach out to the existing community of
Zephyr users for our Jabber rollout. One idea we've considered is a
Zephyr transport for jabber.mit.edu; another option is to provide more
familiar interfaces to Zephyr users.
In furtherance of the second goal, I have pulled down jwgc
(http://jwgc.blathersource.org/) and made changes to make it do GSSAPI
authentication. I've done the work in
/afs/dev.mit.edu/project/jabber/repos/jwgc. Since jwgc is a niche
piece of software and is not architecturally very sound, I have not
tried to preserve its generality, and my modified version is only
suitable for connecting to a server which operates very similarly to
jabber.mit.edu. I will be submitting the patches to source-reviewers
as follows:
Change #1: Fix a bug in the Unicode conversion code
Change #2: Fix a bug in the handling of messages with no bodies
Change #3: Don't request agent info
Change #4: Allow JID domain to differ from connect server
Change #5: Refactor stream header creation code
Change #6: Replace password auth with GSSAPI auth
I expect to deploy this in the next Athena release. I don't think a
non-Athena deployment is necessary, except possibly for stock RHEL.
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