Jabber and Yahoo gateways

Not a bad idea... I did not know the forum existed before your message but I will check it out. Has anybody been having problems for the past day or two though. I seem to log into the jabber.zim.net.au server just fine, but the Yahoo transport is offline. I get the same thing with iChat and Psi.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Yeah I'm having the same problem... I tried to remove the transport and re-register, but now I can't. 😟

I know this is a simple check and I am sure someone has tried it but I would like to know if anyone has tried to log in using direct Yahoo for Mac?

Thanks

Ok wow. I've never heard of this Jabber stuff until today. Do I understand correctly, that I can talk to people in Yahoo Messenger from my iChat window?
This sounds pretty neat and I would like to try it. But I don't know where to start. Could someone please help me with a step-by-step guide to setting this up? I would greatly appreciate it. Right now I just use my AIM name to log into iChat. AIM = anygivenjeff

Thanks.

Jeff

I just connected to Yahoo using Trillian on a Windows XP laptop (unfortunately a work thing). Therefore, can certainly rule out Yahoo as the issue. It seems that the Yahoo transport is offline, or is not talking with the server somehow...

I put the question into the jabber.org.au forums to see if I get a response.

Its working again. Trejkaz is really seems to care about keeping things working. Don't forget to drop by his forum and offer your thanks

I was going to go to the jabber.org.au forums to see if i could find info, and found this page

http://www.jabber.org.au/ichat

It's instructions on how to set up jabber and ichat, and except that the yahoo gateway is offline, it worked great. I'm using it with MSN right now. When I logged back in with ichat, I got a bunch of pop-ups for authorizations for MSN buddies I added using adium.

The steps at the link above are even easier than the allforces procedure using Psi. Highly recommended.

The irritating thing is that yes, he patched his own server, but so far as I can tell nowhere has he posted the patch or even described it in sufficient detail to allow anyone else to patch their own transports.

I could use his transport, I suppose, but then my packets would have to go to Australia and back to hit the yahoo servers that are about 10 miles north of me. That would be just stupid.

After another hour of randomly stabbing at the source code, I've found the problem.

Hopefully, by actually posting a frigging patch I can save others the headache.

Take the yahoo-transport 2.3.2 source and apply this patch:

--- yahoo-message.c.orig Mon Aug 29 14:17:01 2005
+ yahoo-message.c Mon Aug 29 14:11:05 2005
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@

x = xmlnode newtag("x");
xmlnode putattrib(x, "xmlns", "jabber:x:event");
- xmlnode insertcdata (xmlnode inserttag (x, "id"), "ABCD", 4);
+/* xmlnode insertcdata (xmlnode inserttag (x, "id"), "ABCD", 4); */

xmlnode insertnode(m, x);
yahoo_deliver(NULL,m);

That is, you need to prevent the transport from sticking an 'id' node in the messages it sends.

Are you using this transport for a public Jabber server? I am currently using the jabber.org.au server, but I would like to use a server that is not half way around the world as well.

Thanks,
Brian

HI Brian,

Public servers and their transports.

http://www.jabber.org/network/

The rest is trial and error I am afraid.

Ralph

Thanks Ralph.

I have seen this list before... I was just hoping I could get someone to confirm the stability of a jabber server in the US using Yahoo (and MSN) transports.

But thanks for the info.

Brian