New Converse plugin: Verify HTTP requests with XMPP

Converse is a JavaScript XMPP client that can be run in a web browser. Unfortunately, it does not support the XMPP extension (XEP) that allows to verify HTTP Requests via XMPP (XMPP): XEP-0070. So I decided to code a small plugin to provide this functionality.

This article follows the serie about this XEP:

How to use it

See the official documentation on how to install this plugin.

If you want to hide the authentication request of your provider, you can set the following option in your converse.initialize function:

hidden: ['auth.example.com']

It will also work with any jid.

You can test the implementation with my demo website: https://demo.agayon.be/

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This article follow up the article about Authentication without password using XMPP on a Django website previously presented here. This article introduced the XMPP extension (XEP-0070) which allows one to connect on a website with his XMPP account, without additional password.

Unfortunately, the XEP-0070 is not widely used but this article aims to present you my little contribution to change this situation.

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