On 2/12/10 1:02 AM, "Colin Barrett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Peter Hosey wrote: > >> On Feb 11, 2010, at 09:45:03, Joe Hildebrand wrote: >>> The big win is that people won't have to figure out what their JID is. >> >> Their JID is <facebook-username>@chat.facebook.com. This should be trivial >> for us to fill out automatically; the user need only enter their Facebook >> username. > > It's possible we could use Facebook's API to do this discovery automatically. > I'm not terribly familiar with it, but considering the user is going to give > us their password, it seems likely we could ask them FB to return their FB > username. We might even be able to repurpose (or at least examine) some of > their iPhone code. That's *exactly* what their X-FACEBOOK-PLATFORM SASL mechanism does, except without us actually needing to see the password.
