sxmppd

Simple XMPP Daemon

A public domain server for the XMPP (Jabber) chat protocol

News

2010-06-30 v0.3.1 - fix stupid bug in MUC

2010-06-29 Just released version 0.3. Features some bugfixes, online creation of chat rooms and user accounts, and a config file.

2010-06-08 This page is likely to lag behind the current state of development, although I will try to upload new versions regularly.

Summary

There are other, functional XMPP servers out there, but they're either far too complicated for my taste or have dependences on some trendy language-of-the-week which I don't want to install on my machine.

Enter sxmppd. It's simple, it's written in C++, and its only dependencies are OpenSSL, libxml2 and sqlite.

About

I'm pretty much making this up as I go along. It doesn't (yet) fully or correctly implement the XMPP spec. Many essential features are still to be implemented. There are probably serious bugs and security vulnerabilities. In short, don't use this for anything serious right now.

A lot of the code is rather hacky and poorly structured. This will get better as I implement more functionality.

Features

(Buggy and incomplete, but you can use 'em)

• User authentication
• SSL
• Roster management
• Presence updates
• Presence subscriptions
• Messaging (local users)
• Group chat
• File-based server configuration

Download

You can get hold of sxmppd from the download page.

Installation

• Download and compile. You will need the libraries mentioned above and a fairly new GCC (4.4 works).
• If you want to use SSL, you will need to create a PEM file containing a certificate and private key for the server - encrypted connections will fail without this.
• Start up the server and it will create the main database file user.db for you.

  $ ./sxmppd -d -f /path/to/sxmppd.conf
  

  (-d causes the server to become a daemon, and -f specifies the path to the config file).
• Add a user (if you didn't enable on-line registration):

  $ sqlite3 user.db 'insert into users (name,password) values ("joebloggs","a!B2c#")'
  

• Log in with your favourite Jabber client. You may need to turn off SASL authentication.

Copying

This code is hereby released into the public domain (or equivalent where applicable). Go wild.