MacBook:~ nicolas $ telnet chat.facebook.com 5222
Trying 69.63.176.191...
Connected to chat.facebook.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
<stream />
<?xml version="1.0"?><stream:stream id="F6DE2CB5" from="chat.facebook.com" xmlns="jabber:client" xmlns:stream="http://etherx.jabber.org/streams" xml:lang="en"><stream:error><invalid-namespace xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-streams"/></stream:error></stream:stream>
Connection closed by foreign host.
Jay!
facebook chat has been jabber from the start (well, since they started the official chat functionality)
Damn right!
XMPP= JABBER
Actually, Jabber can be considered to be a sub-protocol of XMPP nowadays.
@sdf: I heard they used XMPP as the internal protocol (hidden behind HTTP/AJAX, not sure whether they use BOSH), but has it always been available as a public XMPP service?
Wow… how long has it been since they first told people they were going to implement this.. Its about time
@ Nicolas – It was not always available as a public xmpp service, this is new
If it actually is becoming reality, I have tw… three words: about fucking time: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=110.
I have no idea whether they have used XMPP as the internal protocol, but for sure it hasn’t been publicly available and still isn’t. See http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2009/05/13/happy-birthday-facebook-jabberxmpp-chat-vaporware for more information
lets pray it will happen…
Here you can find a pidgin (and telepathy) plugin for facebook : http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/
I wonder if this chat.facebook.com has been up for months and we just stumbled across it now? In other words… there is actually no news at all.
I tried username@chat.facebook.com and [facebook id #]@chat.facebook.com, neither worked.
Ian,
Did you try the e-mail address?
it would be cool to have public jabber/xmpp service! The pidgin facebook chat plugin is a nightmare, it causes for me to have crash in every hour or so, going online/offline every time, almost impossible to use, which is a problem since I have many fb friends, but I don’t wanna use web browser to chat, it’s so uncomfortable ….