Our internal company XMPP server supports legacy SSL connections.

We are currently using the Jabber plugin with it, with the 'Enable SASL connection option' enabled as well. It is working pretty well for us.

One issue I am seeing in the logfile is that it takes the Jabber plugin 1 minute to connect to the server, because it first tries to connect with SASL, then gets an EOFException, and finally (60 secs later) retries with legacy SSL and succeeds. See log below:

Sep 26, 2013 2:14:00 PM hudson.plugins.im.IMConnectionProvider$ConnectorRunnable run
INFO: Trying to reconnect
Sep 26, 2013 2:14:00 PM hudson.plugins.jabber.im.transport.JabberIMConnection createConnection
INFO: Trying to connect to XMPP on somebox:someport/foo.com with SASL
java.io.EOFException: input contained no data
at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.fillBuf(MXParser.java:3003)
at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.more(MXParser.java:3046)
at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.parseProlog(MXParser.java:1410)
at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.nextImpl(MXParser.java:1395)
at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.next(MXParser.java:1093)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.PacketReader.parsePackets(PacketReader.java:325)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.PacketReader.access$000(PacketReader.java:43)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.PacketReader$1.run(PacketReader.java:70)
Sep 26, 2013 2:15:00 PM hudson.plugins.jabber.im.transport.JabberIMConnection retryConnectionWithLegacySSL
INFO: Retrying connection with legacy SSL
Sep 26, 2013 2:15:00 PM hudson.plugins.jabber.im.transport.JabberIMConnection setupSubscriptionMode
INFO: Accepting all subscription requests
Sep 26, 2013 2:15:00 PM hudson.plugins.jabber.im.transport.JabberIMConnection connect
INFO: Connected to XMPP on somebox:someport/foo.com

At first, I thought all we would need to do is uncheck the 'Enable SASL connection option' checkbox. But alas, if we deselect that, then it never connects.

Sep 26, 2013 2:21:22 PM hudson.plugins.im.IMConnectionProvider$ConnectorRunnable run
INFO: Trying to reconnect
Sep 26, 2013 2:21:22 PM hudson.plugins.jabber.im.transport.JabberIMConnection createConnection
INFO: Trying to connect to XMPP on somehost:someport/foo.com
java.io.EOFException: input contained no data
at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.fillBuf(MXParser.java:3003)
at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.more(MXParser.java:3046)
at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.parseProlog(MXParser.java:1410)
at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.nextImpl(MXParser.java:1395)
at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.next(MXParser.java:1093)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.PacketReader.parsePackets(PacketReader.java:325)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.PacketReader.access$000(PacketReader.java:43)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.PacketReader$1.run(PacketReader.java:70)
Sep 26, 2013 2:22:22 PM hudson.model.Run execute
Sep 26, 2013 2:22:22 PM hudson.plugins.jabber.im.transport.JabberIMConnection retryConnectionWithLegacySSL
INFO: Retrying connection with legacy SSL
stream:error (not-authorized)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.PacketReader.parsePackets(PacketReader.java:260)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.PacketReader.access$000(PacketReader.java:43)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.PacketReader$1.run(PacketReader.java:70)
Sep 26, 2013 2:22:43 PM hudson.plugins.jabber.im.transport.JabberIMConnection connect
WARNING: No response from the server.:
at org.jivesoftware.smack.NonSASLAuthentication.authenticate(NonSASLAuthentication.java:73)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.XMPPConnection.login(XMPPConnection.java:212)
at hudson.plugins.jabber.im.transport.JabberIMConnection.createConnection(JabberIMConnection.java:319)
at hudson.plugins.jabber.im.transport.JabberIMConnection.connect(JabberIMConnection.java:162)
at hudson.plugins.jabber.im.transport.JabberIMConnectionProvider.createConnection(JabberIMConnectionProvider.java:42)
at hudson.plugins.im.IMConnectionProvider.create(IMConnectionProvider.java:65)
at hudson.plugins.im.IMConnectionProvider.access$600(IMConnectionProvider.java:22)
at hudson.plugins.im.IMConnectionProvider$ConnectorRunnable.run(IMConnectionProvider.java:183)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Sep 26, 2013 2:22:43 PM hudson.plugins.im.IMConnectionProvider$ConnectorRunnable run
INFO: Reconnect failed. Next connection attempt in 1 minutes
...

Would it be possible to add a checkbox so that it can skip the original XMPP connection using SASL and directly go to XMPP over Legacy SSL?

Thanks!
-Steve