[JDEV] "Username not available" error ...

[Jerome Banks]

  Folks , 
    I'm trying to write a client which checks to see if a user is registered
    with a jabber server, and if he isn't registered, automatically create
an
    account on the jabberserver. 

    The documentation in the Jabber Developer's guide for register .

 http://docs.jabber.org/jpg/refiqregister.html
  
    It implies that if one is already registered, there would be a
   <registered/> tag in the response. Instead I get Error 409, 
    "Username not available". What am I supposed to do ???
  
    These interactions are too confusing as it is. There should be
    simpler ways to do these sorts of things ...

     --- jerome