[JDEV] fascinating JabberIM bug.

[Brian Haskin]

Heh,

I was just starting to look for information on this when I saw the message.
The workaround does the trick here also.

Brian Haskin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan J. Mehl" <memory at blank.org>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Cc: <support at jabber.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 1:27 PM
Subject: [JDEV] fascinating JabberIM bug.


>
> After several days of banging my head against JabberIM, I finally
> managed to isolate the case of a very strange bug.
>
> Environment: jabberd 1.2 on RedHat 6.2.  JabberIM 0.9.6.86 on Win98
> and Win2000.  Gabber 0.7.0 on RedHat 6.2 and 7.0.
>
> The scenario:
>
> Assume two users:
>
> testuser1 at jabber.example.org
> TestUser2 at jabber.example.org
>
> testuser1 is logged in using JabberIM.  It doesn't appear to matter
> which client TestUser2 uses.
>
> If TestUser2 logs in as "testuser2 at jabber.example.org", everything
> works fine -- the users can exchange presence and chat with each other
> normally.
>
> BUT, if TestUser2 logs in as "TestUser2 at jabber.example.org", each
> message he sends to testuser1 is interpreted by JabberIM as a "new"
> message, and JabberIM opens a new window for each line sent.  If
> JabberIM is set to "Display only latest chat window for new messages",
> the previous window is deleted.  If that option is unchecked, the
> windows stack up one after the other.
>
> The _only_ determining factor here appears to be whether the currently
> logged-in JID uses capital letters.  The case of the registered ID
> does not appear to be significant.  JabberIM was the only client I
> found that displayed this behavior: Gabber, WinJab and HotJabber all
> behave correctly.
>
> I would be _very_ curious to know if anybody else can reproduce this,
> or if they have any insight into why it happens.
>
> -n
>
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