[jdev] Google Talk transport?

[Bruce Campbell]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Norman Rasmussen wrote:

> On 03/10/05, John Talbot <jtalbot at proionta.gr> wrote:
>> Norman Rasmussen wrote:
>>> I was thinking of making a general XMPP transport for jabber.  You
>>> would have to register with it to supply your gtalk account details.
>>> Also when you set it up on your server you would override the
>>> @gmail.com with the transport, and then all your google talk stuff is
>>> 100% transparent to the user after he has registered.
>> ...but why the phrase "was thinking"? Aren't you thinking of going ahead
>> anymore?
> I'm hoping that google will enable s2s before I have time to code it :-P

Doesn't look that hard.  JEP 100 documents most of the cases.

Actually, it wasn't that hard.  You can download a simple version at 
http://zerlargal.org/c/xmppgateway.pl .

As-is, it probably will _not_ work for realtime conversations with Google 
talk, but enterprising people will understand what line 191 does and be 
able to work around it.

Known Bugs:

 	PSI drops certain fields in the registration, Gabber doesn't.
 	This makes registering with the gateway a touch difficult.

 	Its a 1 to 1 mapping; a given client cannot register multiple
 	times to different remote networks.

 	The polling is crufty, and I wouldn't be surprised if it managed
 	to mix up messages when gatewaying multiple users.

If there are bugs beyond what is documented, I'd love to hear about them.

-- 
   Bruce Campbell

   Now, all I have to do is to complete my idea of having a corporate
   gateway relaying from funkyname at subdept.corporate.example to
   Proper.Name at corporate.example, and I'm set.