Bug 20105

Summary:	Add a way to connect to fallback ports on rubbish networks
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Simon McVittie <smcv>
Component:	gabble	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Simon McVittie 2009-02-13 10:09:33 UTC

Gabble only connects to one port at the moment. We could define a way to fall back to port 443 with SSL, to allow connecting to Google (and anyone else whose XMPP server listens on 443) with strict HTTP CONNECT proxies.

This could be as complex as a list of (server, port, old-ssl?) tuples, or as simple as a boolean for "on failure, do old-ssl on port 443".

Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-02-14 02:43:07 UTC

A list of (s:server, u:port, b:ssl) could make sense in telepathy-idle too as in the IRC world you connect to an IRC network which can be composed of many IRC servers.

Empathy has already UI supporting that actually but currently Idle just uses the top one in the priority list.

Comment 2 Will Thompson 2009-02-14 03:45:46 UTC

Let's play "how do we express values of type a(sub) in a .manager file?" :D

Comment 3 Simon McVittie 2012-10-12 11:09:06 UTC

telepathy-gabble 0.9.18 (2010-09-13)
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• Add the fallback-servers parameter, which can be used to make connections to
  Google Talk on some networks more reliable (stormer)

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