[Xmpppy-devel] GSASL support for xmpppy

[Alexey N. <sn...@gm...>]

Hi Norman.

I've been just contacted by one of my old customers for whom I did a
python-gsasl library and integrated it's support into xmpppy about 2
years ago so he could use a KERBEROS auth in his script. He asked me
if there is any particular reason to not include it into upstream and
I didn't find any.

Please have a look at the attached patch.

It is quite simple: if we provide a callback for getting SASL
properties - that means that we want to use a 'new-style' SASL auth
with is implemented through usage of GSASL.

I do not know if this is just 'not polished enough' or 'a feature' -
to have a dictionary of properties in the main.py
For 'traditional' DIGEST-MD5 this looks like overkill, but for more
complicated stuff it might be just neccessary.

In any case, please have a look and share your comments.

Alexey

P.S. I needed to apply the following patch to GSASL/__init__.py:
-_gsasl=CDLL('libgsasl.so')
+try: _gsasl=CDLL('libgsasl.so')
+except: _gsasl=CDLL('libgsasl.so.7')