Re: [Freetalk-dev] Intricacies of GTalk.

[Vikas Gorur]

On 10/23/06, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray <address@hidden> wrote:
> But why do you have to specify both 'gmail.com' and 'talk.google.com'
> in GAIM? Can you tell me the exact role played by 'gmail.com'. I
> understand that the service is run on talk.google.com on port 5222.

address@hidden is your JID. Gaim asks you to specify it in two
parts, 'username' in one textbox, and 'gmail.com' as the "server" in
another.

> Since the stream is TLS secured, how do I capture the XML traffic?
> Ethereal would not work I guess.

Your XMPP library might have an option to dump the XML stream before
encrypting. Check for it. Otherwise you might want to hack the library
a bit to make it do that.

Vikas
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