And Brian Morrison spoke on 09/29/2009 01:17 PM, saying: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:03:22 -0700 > Paul Aurich <darkrai...@pidgin.im> wrote: > >>>>> (13:28:18) connection: Connection error on 0452E770 (reason: 5 >>>>> description: >>>>> You require encryption, but it is not available on this server.) >>>> >>> >>> Hmm, might be a good idea if the error message that Pidgin creates was >>> more descriptive of the real problem. >>> >> >> As I mentioned in my other email, Kellie's issue is *not* actually a lack >> of SSL support on the server, but instead that the XMPP prpl needs to first >> look for an error before trying to start authentication. > > Ah, so you're saying it doesn't actually do that? >
Whoops, what I wrote wasn't what I meant to say. Kellie's problem was the host name mismatch. The misleading error part IS a bug. It should be straightforward to fix that (just look for errors before trying to do other things), although I haven't looked at the code. >> (I'm probably going to change the account option to read "Require SSL/TLS >> encryption") > > That would be sensible, lots of less knowledgeable users won't know > that SSL/TLS involves encryption. > The cynic in me wants to say people won't know what encryption is either :-P. The other alternative I came up with is "Require secure connection", but I'm unwilling to stipulate that checking that box would actually make the connection secure (self-signed certificates, users clicking through hostname mismatch warnings, the lack of end-to-end security, etc). ~P
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