[JDEV] Question about UserName and Clients

[Michael Schlueter]

Hi Ashvil,

Am Mon, 2002-04-15 um 13.24 schrieb Ashvil:
> Is there a reason why some clients like JabberIM 1.10 and WinJab 1.1 do not allow you to use an email address as a user name like 'abc at xyz.com'. They don't seem to like the '@'.
> 
> IMHO, if the user enters
> UserName : abc at xyz.com
> Server : im.xyz.com
> 
> Then it should connect to the server at im.xyz.com and send the JID as abc at xyz.com
> And if the username does not contain a '@' character, then append the server name to generate the JID. 
> 
> This way, I can run the server on a sub domain (maybe outsourced to a different ISP) and still have my JID with my main domain name.
> 
> Can someone enlighten me on this issue. 

take a look at:
http://www.jabber.org/ietf/draft-miller-jabber-00.html#entity-node

A Node Identifier is a User Name.

Bye, Michael