[JDEV] Getting a 404 trying to create a chat room with jabber:iq:conference

[Jens Alfke]

Still working on implementing chat. Since the 1.4 server how-to document 
insists that generic conferencing is implemented via conference.so, 
that's what I'm implementing. This is a straight 1.4.1 server and 
conference.so running on Solaris with no special setup beyond what's 
given in the how-to docs.

Unfortunately when trying to create a new chat room I get an error 404 
("not found") back from the server. I'm sending an IQ "set" with the 
jabber:iq:conference namespace to create the room, as described in the 
Generic Conferencing document. According to the docs, even if the server 
doesn't allow creating rooms, it should return 405 instead.

Below is a literal transcript of what's happening. I first query the 
room to make sure it doesn't already exist, then when I get the expected 
404 I create the room, which results in an unexpected 404. This is 
copied directly from my client's XML transcript window, except I've 
replaced the actual server address with "myserver". The blue italic 
stuff is what my client sends, the black regular text is the server's 
reply.

Any suggestions or ideas?

<iq type="get" id="00000003" to="jens_174129 at myserver">
<query xmlns="jabber:iq:conference">
</query>
</iq>

<iq type='error' id='00000003' to='jens at myserver/Work' 
from='jens_174129 at myserver'>
<query xmlns='jabber:iq:conference'>
</query>
<error code='404'>Not Found</error></iq>

<iq type="set" id="00000004" to="jens_174129 at myserver">
<query xmlns="jabber:iq:conference">
<nick>jens</nick>
</query>
</iq>

<iq type='error' id='00000004' to='jens at myserver/Work' 
from='jens_174129 at myserver'>
<query xmlns='jabber:iq:conference'>
<nick>jens</nick>
</query>
<error code='404'>Not Found</error></iq>

—Jens
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