IM&Presence with 3rd Party Client

[douglasfir]

Hello,

Did anyone succeed to connect third-party client with Cisco IM&Presence?

I tried with Spark and there seems to be some problem with PLAIN authentification - wrong Base64 username:password encoding by Spark, so IM&Presence refuses to authenticate my 3rd part client.

Thanks!

Kind regards, Dragan

[Gordon Ross]

We've got people connecting both via Apple Messages and open source XMPP clients both direct to IM&P and via MRA.

GTG

[douglasfir]

Hi Gordon,

Do you know which open source clients did you use exactly? I've tried with Spark and several other.

I noticed that Jabber for Windows uses "CISCO-VTG-TOKEN" as authentication method. Third-party clients use PLAIN authentication, but there seems to be a problem. Do you know perhaps which format exactly should be used before encoding to Base64?

For instance I tried with:

- username, password

- username@domain, password

But I always get XMPP FAILURE back.

Thanks in advance,

Regards, Dragan

[Gordon Ross]

I think at least Pidgin has been used.

Username has to be username@domain

Do you have an _xmpp-client._tcp SRV DNS record?

GTG