Windows Live Message and XMPP

[Dave Warren]

On 12/16/2011 4:21 AM, Frank Lanitz wrote:
> Hi folks,
> Just saw a article about MSN now supporting XMPP.
>
> http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2011/12/14/anyone-can-build-a-windows-live-messenger-client-with-open-standards-access-via-xmpp.aspx
>
> short: http://yaturl.net/c4e
>
> Unfortunately I didn't found out by now, what I have to configure on
> Pidgin for using that. Anybody of more had more success?
>

Looking at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/hh561460 it 
appears that they're using a custom OAUTH implementation, nothing 
standards based, so at least for the moment this isn't useful to pidgin 
users.

However, from a development point of view it might be less painful to 
implement than maintaining the existing protocols, unless there  are any 
licensing or implementation problems on the OAUTH side of things.

Apparently there is an implementation that avoids having to embed the 
application level secret key in the application itself, although I'm not 
clear if this implementation would be suitable for pidgin or not. 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh243647.aspx discusses the 
implementation details.

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