Programming Jabber

Chapter 7. User Registration and Authorization

With all of Jabber’s building blocks at our fingertips, we can now take a look at two fundamental processes that revolve around Jabber users:

• The registration, or creation, of Jabber user accounts

• The authentication of a Jabber user account, including the different authentication methods

These processes involve some of the things we learned about in Chapter 5 and Chapter 6, so we’ll take a look at them again along the way:

• The XML stream header

• The jabber:iq:register namespace

• The jabber:iq:auth namespace

At the end of this chapter, we will create a small utility program with which we can register users on a server. We can then use this utility program to create users as required for further recipes in this book.