Google Instant Messenger Coming Really (or Not?)

bach37 writes "Google is rumored to launch its own instant messenger tomorrow." Other sources are reporting that talk.google.com is running jabber. Of course we've also had stories about all this being rumors

Comments

Re:180 degrees?

[the_mighty_$]

They already have an IM service.

It's real: it's a Jabber server!

[YA_Python_dev]

This time is not a rumor!

Try it for yourself. Send a string like:

<stream:stream to='talk.google.com' xmlns='jabber:client' xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams'>

to talk.google.com, port 5222. It will respond with a valid RFC 3920 (Jabber) stream!

Re:180 degrees?

[TheRaven64]

I can confirm that talk.google.com is talking Jabber.

telnet talk.google.com 5222
Trying 64.233.167.125...
Connected to talk.l.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<stream:stream
to="talk.google.com"
xmlns="j abber:client"
xmlns:stream="http://etherx.jabber. org/streams">
<stream:stream from="talk.google.com" id="C12F7326" xmlns:stream="http://etherx.jabber.org/streams" xmlns="jabber:client">

The last line of this is the standard response sent by a Jabber server prior to negotiating a login.

Re:180 degrees?

[YA_Python_dev]

Not anymore...

Yeah: it still works, you just need to send at least the start of a valid Jabber stream. Instead of "?" try sending:

<stream:stream to='talk.google.com' xmlns='jabber:client' xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams'>