Pidgin 2.5.2 failed to connect

[Stu Tomlinson]

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:13 +0200, Stefan X wrote:
> I was happy to tryout Pdigin 2.5.2 which should fix the ticket #1435
> ("server handshake failes due to cipher spec mismatch"). Unfortunately
> connecting to my Jabber account (ejabberd) through port 5222 (new TLS
> protocol) still fails. Connecting with old SSL to port 5223 is still
> possible. Here is the debug log when connection to port 5222:

> (15:01:50) jabber: Recv (365): <stream:stream xmlns='jabber:client'
> xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams' id='287236560'
> from='example.com' version='1.0'
> xml:lang='en'><stream:features><mechanisms
> xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl'><mechanism>DIGEST-MD5</mechanism><mechanism>PLAIN</mechanism></mechanisms><register
> xmlns='http://jabber.org/features/iq-register'/></stream:features>
> (15:01:50) account: Disconnecting account 00CD9708
> (15:01:50) connection: Disconnecting connection 03728510
> (15:01:50) jabber: XML parser error for JabberStream 036BBA00: Domain 1,
> code 5, level 3: Extra content at the end of the document
> 
> (15:01:50) jabber: jabber_actions: have pep: NO
> (15:01:50) connection: Destroying connection 03728510

> Any ideas what may be the cause of this problem?

Your server is not configured to offer starttls to "upgrade" a
connection to SSL/TLS on port 5222. Pidgin should report this in a
better way than "cipher spec mismatch", if that is really how it is
reporting it.

Regards,


Stu.