[JDEV] username case sensitivity

Thomas Muldowney temas at box5.net
Thu Nov 15 11:11:02 CST 2001


You are correct, this is a msn-t bug.  Jabber is case insensitive for
usernames, but attemtps to preserve the case you login with.  Have you
tried the current cvs of msn-t?

--temas


On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 04:10:36PM -0800, Aaron McBride wrote:
> FYI:
> I've been fooling around installing different transports and whatnot, and 
> after several hours of pulling my hair I noticed that the MSN transport is 
> case sensitive when it comes to usernames (jabber usernames), but Jabber 
> itself is not.  The result was that I'd try to login with a different case, 
> and Jabber would work, but the MSN transport would give me 407 errors.
> 
> I'm not sure what the standard is (my vote is for case insensitivity), but 
> it would be nice if all of the transports, and the Jabber server itself all 
> worked the same.
> 
> -Aaron
> 
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