[jdev] Facebook now supports XMPP connections

[Pedro Melo]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Norman Rasmussen
<norman at rasmussen.co.za> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Pedro Melo <melo at simplicidade.org> wrote:
>> I was able to login with a Psi-based client. The lack of SRV records
>> is unfortunate.
>
> It shouldn't matter chat.facebook.com has an A record for a server that you
> can connect to on port 5222, why would you need SRV records?

Because the use of SRV records is the recommended way to discover the
IP/Port for a XMPP server, as specified in the 3920 RFC (section
14.3).

Using A records is the fallback method.

Just because it works, does not make it right.

Bye,
-- 
Pedro Melo
http://www.simplicidade.org/
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