<pre>>Hi Fabio, >Slight correction to this: >The talk servers require TLS/SSL to log in. You can do this in two ways: >1) (preferred) Connect to 5222 and do a starttls. This is the new preferred XMPP style of starting up tls >2) Connect to 5223 and do tls right away. Then you can authenticate via >SASL or old school jabber mechanisms. >Joe Well, thanks joe that reply was really useful. I am kind of new to jabber development, so I am using JabberCOM DLL for all the XMPP related stuff. I am not sure if I can do the starttls with it. Can you suggest some way of doing this with may be some open source library or something? But, I remember reading in the XMPP specs that "starttls" is supposed to be done by server first (correct me if I am wrong). >Just to make it extra clear, you need to be generating this: >SENT: <stream:stream to="<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>" xmlns="jabber:client" >xmlns:stream=" <a href="http://etherx.jabber.org/streams">http://etherx.jabber.org/streams</a> "> Thanks Norman. Does this mean that I should connect to <a href="http://talk.google.com">talk.google.com</a> but send the above stream? Should switch from JabberCOM to some other library or DLL? My requirements are that I am doing development in windows and specifically I need a C++ based library/DLL with source code. Gloox is out of the question as it is yet to bring out a stable version for windows. Can anybody help me in this regard??? Others too please take a look into my previous posts and tell me if I can still salvage something with my existing setup. Thanks and Cheers, - Mukil </pre>