Hi Everyone, I wanted to get a jabber-account on earth.li, but my client (Pidgin on Windows 7) throws a "403 forbidden" at me...
On https://xmpp.net/directory.php jabber.earth.li is listed as public/free and has A-Grades in terms of Security. So I assumed I could register with my client.
Is there any webinterface through which I could register? Is it a client-problem? Or are registrations disabled?
Thank you in Advance, Maciej "Metty" Schuttkowski
Log (I removed my password, the rest is untouched):
(12:32:05) jabber: Recv (ssl)(228): <iq from='jabber.earth.li' id='purple3ad95fec' type='result'><query xmlns='jabber:iq:register'><instructions>Choose a username and password to register with this server</instructions><username></username><password/></query></iq>
(12:32:05) jabber: jabber_actions: have pep: YES
(12:32:05) connection: Activating keepalive.
(12:32:08) jabber: Sending (ssl) (metty@jabber.earth.li/dcdo): <iq type='set' id='purple3ad95fed' to='jabber.earth.li'><query xmlns='jabber:iq:register'><username>metty</username><password>#pw#</password></query></iq>
(12:32:08) jabber: Recv (ssl)(256): <iq from='jabber.earth.li' id='purple3ad95fed' type='error'><query xmlns='jabber:iq:register'><username>metty</username><password>umhaomav</password></query><error code='403' type='auth'><forbidden xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'/></error></iq>
(12:32:08) account: Disconnecting account metty@jabber.earth.li/dcdo (026EDFA0)
On 2013-12-09 11:41, Maciej Schuttkowski wrote:
Hi Everyone, I wanted to get a jabber-account on earth.li, but my client (Pidgin on Windows 7) throws a "403 forbidden" at me... On https://xmpp.net/directory.php jabber.earth.li is listed as public/free and has A-Grades in terms of Security. So I assumed I could register with my client. Is there any webinterface through which I could register? Is it a client-problem? Or are registrations disabled?
Yes this is a problem isn't it..... =). I and others seem to have asked similar question before seemingly without success...
There seems to be a shortage of good public servers in UK. comm.unicate.me seems to have died recently but used to be good. jabber.org.uk seems to have bad SSL cert but can work. jabber.earth.li seems to have unresponsive admins and no working registration =). May not have been intended to be quite public-use ?
I wonder what we can do to help running better public servers... There doesn't seem to be much "incentive" and experienced technical people seem to just run their own prosody-or-whatever on their vps or the like... =).
I wonder what the real 'admin problems' and/or 'liabilities / spam control' really happen with jabber... How feasible is it to just setup a self-registration public jabber server anyway...! =).
... Who knows =).
--Simon
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 12:35:53PM +0000, Simon Iremonger (wiltslug) wrote:
On 2013-12-09 11:41, Maciej Schuttkowski wrote:
Hi Everyone, I wanted to get a jabber-account on earth.li, but my client (Pidgin on Windows 7) throws a "403 forbidden" at me... On https://xmpp.net/directory.php jabber.earth.li is listed as public/free and has A-Grades in terms of Security. So I assumed I could register with my client. Is there any webinterface through which I could register? Is it a client-problem? Or are registrations disabled?
Yes this is a problem isn't it..... =). I and others seem to have asked similar question before seemingly without success...
There seems to be a shortage of good public servers in UK. comm.unicate.me seems to have died recently but used to be good. jabber.org.uk seems to have bad SSL cert but can work. jabber.earth.li seems to have unresponsive admins and no working registration =). May not have been intended to be quite public-use ?
Sorry for the lack of response; I tend to read the mails, think "I should respond to that when I've got a moment", then forget to come back to this folder.
I disabled registration on jabber.earth.li a while back because it was being seriously abused by what looked to be spammers (thousands of accounts created with random IDs). I'd love to open it up again to public registration but I haven't managed to find an easy way to do so. There are some projects to tie in a capatcha on a web interface with the registration process which I guess might work, but I haven't found the time yet to fully investigate.
J.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 01:25:31PM -0800, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
I disabled registration on jabber.earth.li a while back because it was being seriously abused by what looked to be spammers (thousands of accounts created with random IDs). I'd love to open it up again to public registration but I haven't managed to find an easy way to do so. There are some projects to tie in a capatcha on a web interface with the registration process which I guess might work, but I haven't found the time yet to fully investigate.
It seems ejabber has gained some limited built in support for this since I first looked, so I've enabled:
https://jabber.earth.li:5281/register/
J.
Hey J.,
many many "Thank you"'s from Germany <3 You might want to add that link on the webpage @ jabber.earth.li, since it is the first place, where people go, to see what's wrong if Registration fails :)
Thanks again, I love the domain-name :D
Greetings, Metty
On 13.12.2013 00:14, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 01:25:31PM -0800, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
I disabled registration on jabber.earth.li a while back because it was being seriously abused by what looked to be spammers (thousands of accounts created with random IDs). I'd love to open it up again to public registration but I haven't managed to find an easy way to do so. There are some projects to tie in a capatcha on a web interface with the registration process which I guess might work, but I haven't found the time yet to fully investigate.
It seems ejabber has gained some limited built in support for this since I first looked, so I've enabled:
https://jabber.earth.li:5281/register/
J.
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