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Haiku Chat Client

Overview

Haiku Chat is tiny, about 300KB XMPP client. It supports core XMPP protocol, multi-user chat, Google accounts, Psi bookmarks, In-band registration and other features. It is written for Haiku, free open-source operating system inspired by BeOS. Haiku Chat is simplest and smallest client that supports XMPP Advanced Client 2009 profile.

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Standards supported:

RFC 3920 (Core)
RFC 3921 (Instant Messaging and Presence)
XEP-0199 (Ping)
XEP-0045 (Multi-User Chat)
XEP-0077 (In-Band Registration)
XEP-0092 (Software Version).
XEP-0049 (Private XML Storage)
XEP-0118 (User Tune)
XEP-0004 (Data Forms).
XEP-0030 (Service Discovery).

Sign-up and Sign-in

After application start you can specify any JID (Jabber ID) on Jabber compatible servers such as jabber.org, livejournal.com, gmail.com, xmpp.jp, jabber.ru and others. If SSL or TLS is supported on server side Haiku Chat will use encrypted connection with SASL PLAIN authorization mechanism over 5223 port automatically. Otherwise 5222 port will be used over TCP sockets. Haiku Chat does not support proxy.

If you do not have registered JID on server you can check Register Account checkbox and In-Band registration will be processed if that is supported by server.

Adding Contacts

After succsessful login your roster will be shown. You can Add Contact using roster menu or using short cut ALT+N.

You can switch fields using Item Type combobox for Users and Conferences.

If you choose Conferences and XMPP server supports Private XML Storage (google.com and xmpp.jp doesn't) you could set room nickname. Otherwise field will be disabled and your username from JID will be used by default.

Presence Control

Using selected contact's context menu you can manually control Presence by issue all possible presence requests.

Edit and Remove

Also by context menu you can Remove or Edit roster contacts titles and room nickname if that feature is enabled by server. Remember that Haiku Chat can store conferences in roster on server as persistant contacts if server does not support Private XML Storage. If server does — Haiku Chat will store confereces there in Psi compatible XML format. So you could access them from other client.