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The next version of RFC 3920, the draft of which can be found at http://www.xmpp.org/internet-drafts/draft-saintandre-rfc3920bis-04.html, and subsequent email clarifications with Peter Saint-Andre and Alexey Melnikov indicate that we should be trying the next mechanism in line after one mechanism fails. We should also be ensuring that the mech list is sorted in order of descending security, which we don't do yet; however, servers are supposed to send us a sorted list, as well, so this isn't a major issue. committer: Evan Schoenberg <[e-mail]>

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.