[jdev] XMPP and Facebook

[Dennis Schubert]

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Hi,

you are right, "never" was a bit too hard. I just was talking about what
I heard from some official sides before. Just wanted to say that would
be a pretty nice "improvement". Seems to work fine for Google, but this
list is not the right place for policital discussions, I guess.

On 08.01.13 08:39, Pedro Melo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Dennis Schubert
> <xmpp at dennis-schubert.de> wrote:
>> IIRC, Facebook will never allow s2s.
> 
> "Never" is one of those words…
> 
> There is no technical reason that prevents Facebook providing S2S. 
> Even with their usage of your own email address as login.
> 
> When you add a new buddy to your Facebook chat app, say 
> melo at simplicidade.org, they could offer the option of using my 
> Facebook IM account (melopt at facebook.com, who they know is
> associated with that email address) or a remote Jabber/Gtalk/XMPP
> account.
> 
> The person identifier you use to add a buddy needs not be the actual 
> XMPP JID you'll use to communicate. It's just a mapping process at
> the moment you add the buddy account.
> 
> Only political/strategy reasons, and possibly a little concern with 
> another attack vector, prevent Facebook from adding S2S.
> 
> Bye,

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Dennis Schubert
http://schub.io
xmpp:denschub at dsx.cc

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