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LightMelody: SASL OAUTH2 MechanismCopyleft Games Group
STATUS: DRAFT

XMPP uses SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) for user authentication which supports a variety of different authentication mechanisms. One of them, "X-OAUTH2", uses a web-based login (such as Google) to generate a token used for authenticating.

Add support for SASL X-OAUTH2 authentication, including opening a web browser and completing OAuth2 token negotiation. There is example code for HTTP clients using GIO that may be useful.

Write a small command-line test that demonstrates this working to login to a Google account.

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When you've done, commit your work and post the resulting changeset url to this task.