Welcome to the MXit Protocol Wiki. This wiki is for building up our knowledge on MXit's protocol which is based on Jabber.

News: There is a networking issue somewhere around MXit's network, see the forum post for info on how to work around it.

Protocol Sections

• Protocol Encoding
• Registering
• Login and Logout
• Sending and Receiving Messages
• Moods
• Status Changing
• Contacts
• Groups
• Invites
• Mxit Services
• Mxit Markup
• Mxit Skins
• Other

Test Accounts

• Zhef

Developers

Please add your name's below if you contribute

• Chris Stranex
• Norman Rasmussen
• Dhiren Sham
• Joshua Andrews

Transport Implementations

• A MXit transport written in Python that uses PyXMPP. Written by Norman and contributed to by Chris
• A list of MXit transports installations that are available for use
• Ideas on handling the private numbers in MXit.

Obtaining Protocol Information

• Ethereal / Wireshark
• Java Wireless Tool Kit's network monitor

External Links

• http://www.mxit.co.za/ - MXit's offical website
• http://www.jabber.org/ - Jabber's offical website
• http://xmpppy.sourceforge.net/mxit/ - MXit Jabber transport
• http://forum.mxit.co.za/viewtopic.php?p=246545 - Posting on the MXit forum
• http://xmpppy.sf.net/ - Xmpp.py project where the jabber transport will most likely come from
• http://code.google.com/p/pymxit/ - Python implementation of the protocol, with another procotol wiki