GNU bug report logs - #29295
[PATCH] Few small patches for messaging.

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Message #32 received at 29295 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Rutger Helling <rhelling <at> mykolab.com>, 29295 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#29295] [PATCH] Few small patches for messaging.
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:01:14 +0100

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Rutger,
>
> (+ Cc: Clément who worked on this before.)
>
> Rutger Helling <rhelling <at> mykolab.com> skribis:
>
>> I've looked into the failing test but have been unable to fix it
>> unfortunately. I suspect it's an issue with freetalk though. 
>>
>> When I use freetalk to try to connect to my running prosody 0.10 service
>> I get the same problem as with the failing test. It stays stuck on the
>> 'Authenticating' phase. 
>>
>> When I use a different client such as Pidgin to connect to my prosody
>> service it connects immediately. 
>
> OK, it does sound like a Freetalk issue, in which case we should just go
> ahead and update Prosody, and report the issue to bug-freetalk <at> gnu.org.
>
> Clément, any ideas?

I sent two patches that fix the issue, see
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=29433.

This happened because Prosody removed DIGEST-MD5 auth mechanism since
0.10 (see https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_saslauth).  The other one
(SCRAM-SHA-1) seems to be unsupported by Freetalk.

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