@Tony > The error message says that your stream element's 'to' > attribute should be > "<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>" not "<a href="http://talk.google.com">talk.google.com</a>". Thanks buddy but if I use the server name as <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a> it doesn't seem to solve the problem; the client doesn't connect. @Fabio > Google talk, only talks in 5223... SSL connection :D > Look in the google talk help page tp configuring other IMs: >"Enter '<a href="http://talk.google.com">talk.google.com</a>' in the 'Host:' field, and enter '5223' in > the 'Port:' field (5222 will not work)." Thanks for your suggestion too Fabio but using SSL with port number set as 5223 also fails. I have not tested it with the code that I wrote that I wrote but I did check it with Psi Client. The error I get is that "<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a> certificate failed the authenticity test. Reason: Hostname does not match the one the certificate was issued to" When I saw the certificate it was issued to <a href="http://talk.google.com">talk.google.com</a> but the certificate expected was for <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a> ***** Is everybody developing their own jabber client facing problems connecting to googletalk server??? I am able to connect to ALL other jabber servers perfectly well......