RE: talk.google.com

["Andre Protas" <aprotas () eeye com>]

The Server does not accept plain.  Actually, some clients were unable to
connect to the jabber server b/c of that.  Gajim was one.

Anyone get a perl/python jabber client connecting to talk.google.com
properly?

 
Signed,

Andre Derek Protas
Security Researcher
eEye Digital Security
aprotas eeye com


-----Original Message-----
From: James Tucker [mailto:jftucker () gmail com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:03 AM
To: Andre Protas
Cc: My Name; Paul Melson; adityad2005 () users sourceforge net; Full
Disclosure
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] talk.google.com



Andre Protas wrote:

> Also, they are doing some client-side bounds checking on their message
> sizes.  But, if you connect to talk.google.com from a different client
> (gaim for instance), you can send quite a bit larger of a buffer.
Hehe,
> but then gaim was also cutting me off too the larger I went (more of a
> gtk issue than anything).  I loaded up a python jabber client but got
> blocked by the new google token everyone was talking about.
>  

The token is unimportant if you use the PLAIN mechanism. Check what 
authentication mechanism that client was using.

>  
_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/