[OTR-users] Facebook blocking OTR

Peter Saint-Andre stpeter at stpeter.im
Sat Apr 14 09:19:25 EDT 2012


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On 4/14/12 7:10 AM, ix4svs at gmail.com wrote:
> Solved with the help of the good people of this list.
> 
> The problem is described here: 
> http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14781#comment:4 and it stems
> from the fact some of us have completely turned off "apps &
> websites".
> 
> If you visit
> https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy&section=apps (while
> logged in to FB) and see what's on the attached PNG, you need to
> "turn on apps" and then OTR will work over FB chat.
> 
> One small caveat: ID verification over XMPP (with question/answer
> or pre-shared secret) does not work at this time over FB. It seems
> they have not implemented this feature, since the same
> challenge/response protocol works fine over Google Chat.

Facebook has not yet implemented processing of what in XMPP are called
"IQ stanzas". This breaks a lot of things in XMPP, perhaps including
OTR ID verification. (As I said, their implementation is incomplete.)

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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