[JDEV] Question about UserName and Clients

[Julian Missig]

Well, the transports and the clients need to support iq:gateway, which
will properly generate the appropriate jabberid for that transport.

So temas, does aim-t do iq:gateway yet? :)

On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 12:22, Thomas Muldowney wrote:
> Generally this should be encoded as abc%xyz.com at im.xyz.com.  Just like
> it's done to use msn-t with passport accounts.
> 
> --temas
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 06:24, Ashvil wrote:
> > 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. 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ashvil
> > 
> > PS - WinJab 0.9.5.7 used to do this the way, I suggested
> > 
> >