Then double-click on the transport and enter your username and password for the IM network you want to use. In the “Address” field, provide the address of the Jabber server which has the transport you want to use. In Psi it’s under the “Service Discovery” option in the root menu, and in Gajim under Actions/ Discover Services. So one has to install another Jabber client (like Gajim or Psi), configure transport, and can then even remove this client – from now on Gtalk/ Gchat will be able to connect to other IM networks.Īfter you install and configure the Jabber client (Google provides configuration instructions for Psi) you have to launch the transports browser. the ability to provide a username and password for the IM network of choice). The second thing is that Google’s programs don’t include a place to configure transports (i.e. “Any Jabber client” of course includes Google Talk and Gmail Chat, but there are two difficulties.įirst – Google hasn’t installed any transports on its Jabber server, but that’s actually not a big problem, because you can use transports from other servers. Because of that Jabber folks invented “transports.” A transport is a small computer program that runs on a server and “translates” messages from other networks into the Jabber format, so that they become readable to any Jabber client. Unfortunately for now there are many incompatible commercial IM networks – AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, etc. In a perfect world, everybody would use standard protocols and every IM server would talk with other servers (the same way all email servers do). is only one of the thousand Jabber servers, and Google Talk only one of the hundreds of Jabber clients. The Jabber infrastructure works similar to email infrastructure – everyone can start their own server (or write a client) and servers exchange messages between each other. Most of them don’t know that because of the great GTalk team decision to support the Jabber open protocol, that’s already possible.
Many people want to talk via Google Talk or Gmail Chat with friends in other Instant Messaging networks.
Next year he’s going to be a high school IT teacher. Ludwik Trammer, self-ascribed Mozilla fan, is 19 and lives in Warsaw, Poland.
Tuesday, Jabber Transports (or How to Connect Google Talk with Any IM)
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