Hello fellow Jabberheads-
I just wanted to drop in and let you all know that Tribe currently has a jabber server up and running, that uses the tribe user database and password authentication to create sessions. All you have to do is set your "TribeChat handle" (do this on the Personal tab of the profile pages) and then point your jabber client to:
Username: <handle>@maitai.tribe.net
Password: <your tribe password>
Your friend list is broken into 2 parts - those friends of yours who have set their TribeChat handle, and those who have not. We are using the openim server, which is a Java implementation of the XMPP protocol. So far it has been up for a couple weeks, but has not seen any real load. Feel free to log on and try it out.
I just wanted to drop in and let you all know that Tribe currently has a jabber server up and running, that uses the tribe user database and password authentication to create sessions. All you have to do is set your "TribeChat handle" (do this on the Personal tab of the profile pages) and then point your jabber client to:
Username: <handle>@maitai.tribe.net
Password: <your tribe password>
Your friend list is broken into 2 parts - those friends of yours who have set their TribeChat handle, and those who have not. We are using the openim server, which is a Java implementation of the XMPP protocol. So far it has been up for a couple weeks, but has not seen any real load. Feel free to log on and try it out.
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Re: Tribe.net Chat Server...
Thu, December 2, 2004 - 3:29 AMI pressume it is accessible via the standard Jabber port 5222. Do you plan to make it accessible via the 443 port (with SSL) so that I could use it from inside of our firewall? -
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Re: Tribe.net Chat Server...
Wed, February 16, 2005 - 2:25 PMOK, I've got it set up, can see Tribe friends in two groups . . . now what? Should I be able to message friends as soon as they are 'online' according to Tribe? Since a tribe login isn't necessarily also an active jabber session, is there any way to tell if someone is 'really' there or not?
Also - forgive me as I'm newish to jabber protocol, having mostly been an ICQer - is there any way to use this to set up a realtime tribe-specific chat room? -
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PS: Tribe.net Chat Server...
Wed, February 16, 2005 - 2:27 PMJust FYI - please see opencourses.tribe.net/ as far as explaining whyI'm asking the question.
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Re: Tribe.net Chat Server...
Wed, February 23, 2005 - 5:16 AM> Should I be able to message friends as soon as they are 'online' according to Tribe?
Your friends will only show as online for chat if they are logged on to the chat server. We have not really made any effort to integrate those 2 notions of logged in yet, since it would require a little front-end trickery as well as having the back end server.
> is there any way to use this to set up a realtime tribe-specific chat room?
We don't support this yet, but it is a fairly obvious feature that we should think about doing when we go forward with enhancing the chat functionality.
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Re: Tribe.net Chat Server...
Wed, September 28, 2005 - 6:37 PMJabber with ssl uses port 5223, if you would like to use jabber from inside a firewall you need to look into servers with http-polling capabilites or use a server which uses JWChat or another web based jabber program like mine jabberchicago.net ... feel free to check it out. -
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Re: Tribe.net Chat Server...
Thu, September 29, 2005 - 7:13 AMIt is not that I don't agree that the standard jabber SSL port is 5223 - but there are servers that let me connect on the 443 port which is available from inside of firewalls.
Does http-polling mean port 80? I believe 443 is more handy - as you can keep the connection through it, no need for polling and it is open in nearly every firewall.
JWChat is a nice option - but I won't install it just for access to tribe.net, and your server unfortunately does not let me connect to tribe.net. -
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Re: Tribe.net Chat Server...
Thu, September 29, 2005 - 11:04 PMInteresting, I didn't know some servers ran jabber services on 443, makes sense though. Http-polling, as it's name suggests, is a feature found on some jabber servers and components that enables emulation of a streaming connection over a stateless connection (ie. jabber over http) this is helpful because it will work on many networks which use web proxies or filter content to exclude all but http packets. -
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Re: Tribe.net Chat Server...
Thu, September 29, 2005 - 11:08 PMI wonder which server software the tribe server is using... I a big ejabberd fan myself.
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Re: Tribe.net Chat Server...
Fri, September 30, 2005 - 12:42 AMAt my home machine I run SSH daemon on 443, and putty works with that from inside the firewall. -
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Re: Tribe.net Chat Server...
Fri, September 30, 2005 - 3:52 PMare you just using ssh for portfowarding or are you using a CLI jabber client?
Incidentally, I remembered the reason I leave my tribe account inactive in Psi... It doesn't appear to store vcard data so every time I login it prompts me for new vcard data - very annoying. -
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Re: Tribe.net Chat Server...
Mon, October 3, 2005 - 1:46 AMExcuse me if I was not explicite enough - I don't use my home machine as a jabber server. I just wanted to share that little trick with ssh over the 443 port. But there is a public jabber server listening on 443 - it is jabber80.com and I use it with Gaim.
It is probbable that if I wasn't using that port for sshd I would run a jabberd on that port.
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Re: Tribe.net Chat Server...
Sun, June 26, 2005 - 11:18 PMI wasn't able to connect to this server... Is it dead? -
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Re: Tribe.net Chat Server...
Sat, September 24, 2005 - 1:07 AMis this still on? -
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Re: Tribe.net Chat Server...
Wed, October 5, 2005 - 10:16 AMOur server has been up and down a bit lately. FYI, we use something called openIM, which I chose because it had a nice way to integrate the existing tribe.net authentication and roster (i.e. friend list) code. I have been considering moving to Jive as it seems as though there is far more support and mindshare for that impl. Our requirements are simply that the server we use allow us to use the same (java-based) authentication and friend list code that the application uses. If I can't at least integrate at that level then there is no reason to integrate at all! -
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Re: Tribe.net Chat Server...
Wed, October 5, 2005 - 11:45 AMgood idea..
I myself have a jaber server running jabberd2 I am familiar with the protocol and with clients.
www.binaryfreedom.info
if you need beta testers let me know.
also my jabber JID is rek2@binaryfreedom.info
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