[Pidgin] #11560: Pidgin crashes when reconnecting to Facebook XMPP after idle period

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#11560: Pidgin crashes when reconnecting to Facebook XMPP after idle period
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 Reporter:  jmccabe                |        Owner:  darkrain42     
     Type:  defect                 |       Status:  new            
Milestone:                         |    Component:  winpidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.6.6                  |   Resolution:                 
 Keywords:  crash xmpp digest md5  |  
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Changes (by darkrain42):

  * keywords:  crash facebook xmpp => crash xmpp digest md5


Comment:

 Facebook uses the DIGEST-MD5 sasl mechanism (which at least some of these
 crashes included in the traceback), where most other platforms do not (it
 typically requires access to a plaintext version of the password, or a
 hashed version in a form that most services do not store it in.  My
 assumption is that Facebook is storing separate hashes of it in this form,
 which is why one of the steps needed to activate Facebook XMPP access is
 re-logging into one's account once.  Anyway).  Neither Google Talk nor
 your corporate account support DIGEST-MD5, which is (I suspect) why
 disabling Facebook made it go away.

 If you have an account on a public server (e.g. jabber.org or most of the
 ones at http://xmpp.org/services/ ), you could use that to test (most of
 them likely store passwords in plaintext).

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