Category: Features

Hashed passwords for Prosody

Post author By Roi
Post date April 22, 2014
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We just changed the Prosody authentication provider module to hashed SCRAM-SHA-1 passwords.

You most probably will not notice anything. But if your client does not support SCRAM-SHA-1 the password will be sent in plain, not DIGEST-MD5 like until now. So be sure you only use a TLS/SSL connection to the server to protect the password (and also all your other XMPP data like chat messages) inside an encrypted data stream. Some clients might show a warning that DIGEST-MD5 is not longer available on the server.

The next time you log in the password will be automaticly hashed with SCRAM-SHA-1 mechanism.

Tags DIGEST-MD5, Features, Passwords, Prosody, SCRAM-SHA-1

Downtimes Features Maintenance

Prosody 0.9 with IPv6 and Web Admin

Post author By Roi
Post date August 14, 2013
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We upgraded the Jabber server from Prosody 0.8 to 0.9 today! This brings a lot of new features, I just want to name IPv6 support and a Web Admin interface for our Jabber hosting customers. :-)

After migrating from ejabberd to Prosody we had to dump IPv6, which is now coming back. We are very happy about that and cannot wait how statistics will change after we support it again. ;-)

Also we installed several new modules with some new features.

A big thank you to Matt, the chief maintainer of Prosody! :-) The server upgrade only took about 20 minutes until the server was up and running again. Without him this would not have been possible. We run some special configs which had to be taken care of.

Tags Downtimes, Features, Hosting, IPv6, Maintenance, Prosody, Web Admin

Features Transports

Twitter migrated to Spectrum 2

Post author By Roi
Post date August 15, 2012
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Along with other transports in the last days and weeks Twitter was migrated to Spectrum 2 today.

With Twitter you have some more features. Instead of using the personal messages from twitter.com@twitter.jabber.hot-chilli.net you can use your personal Twitter chatroom at #twitter@twitter.jabber.hot-chilli.net.

Sending #help to the Twitter transport gives you this:

#status ==> Update your status
#timeline [username] ==> Retrieve ‘s timeline; Default – own timeline
@ ==> Send a directed message to the user
#retweet ==> Retweet the tweet having id
#follow ==> Follow user
#unfollow ==> Stop Following user
#mode [012] ==> Switch mode to 0(single), 1(multiple) or 2(chatroom)
#help ==> Print this help message

Tags Features, Spectrum, Transports

Features

URL change for web presence

Post author By Roi
Post date July 27, 2012
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The URL for the web presence service has changed, please see here.

Tags Features

Features Migration

Web Client and web based support chat back online

Post author By Roi
Post date July 27, 2012
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The Web Client and the web based support chat are back online. Many people asked for the Web Client, so I took some time to bring it back to life yesterday. Have fun! ;-)

Tags Features, Migration

Features

Statistics back online

The statistics page is back online, click here.

Tags Features, Statistics

Features Transports

Pre-registration for transports

Post author By Roi
Post date July 10, 2012
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Due to heavy bot and spam we just activated a pre-registration for most of our transport services. Thank you very much to Zash for this quick-n-dirty and well-working Prosody module.

From now on you have to make a pre-registration on this website before you can register to one of our transports by using your Jabber client. This pre-registration record is valid for 10 minutes, after that you would have to use our web form again.

Next to closing in-band registration for Jabber accounts this really seems to be necessary. Sorry about that…