Re: jabber.gnome.org: a proposal

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 13/03/13 23:22, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:26:33AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > to maintain the OpenFire Jabber server. First, as Olav mentioned,
> > there's no SSL support for a service where you would expect privacy.
>
> There is SSL. Just that:
> 1) they broke it in a newer version and never fixed it in any
> reasonable timeframe (3 months)
> 2) getting the certificate installed was a complete mess. Had to convert
> the standard certificate in some terrible format and took a lot of
> effort to figure out.
>
> Current server does SSL IIRC. Though maybe by now it expired again.
>
>
> What I had to go through for SSL:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592836#c8
>
> Couldn't quickly see the bug about openfire messing up their SSL
> support. 'Fix' was easy though, downgrading.

Out of interest, is this with 3.8? We've not yet updated to it and I 
might delay for a bit if you've experienced some issues here.

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Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.