[jdev] Question on login through OAuth
Peter Saint-Andre
stpeter at stpeter.im
Sat May 18 16:33:21 UTC 2013
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On 5/18/13 8:37 AM, Jonas Wielicki wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
>
> While there is no XEP explicitly supporting OAuth, there seem to
> be approaches for using OAuth with SASL, which is the default
> authentication mechanism for XMPP.
>
> So in principle, it should be possible to use OAuth, without
> hardcoding passwords etc.. However, there is probably no software
> out there yet supporting that. I'd suggest you take some web search
> on how to use OAuth with SASL and maybe implement/contribute to the
> standards which are currently in the making (I found some IETF
> draft for sasl+oauth,
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-kitten-sasl-oauth/
It's currently in working group last call.
> and some github code by doing a simple web search). You'll probably
> also have to patch server software to support that, and in turn set
> up your own XMPP service for this to work.
Sounds right. Perhaps over time we'll see more XMPP servers, clients,
and libraries supporting it (once it becomes standardized at the IETF).
Peter
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