[JDEV] XMPP to, from attributes

[Ralph Meijer]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:12:40PM -0700, Justin Karneges wrote:
> On Monday 28 July 2003 02:28 pm, Ralph Meijer wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:54:38PM -0700, Justin Karneges wrote:
> > > > The server is telling you that it wishes to be called
> > > > chat1.shakespeare.lit and that you should send messages to it using
> > > > that address.
> > >
> > > Doesn't it also mean that the client JID becomes
> > > user at chat1.shakespear.lit, and the client should represent it as such?
> >
> > Yeah, that too. I should have mentioned that.
> 
> Now that I think about it, should this even be allowed?  It seems this 
> complicates things.  For instance, Psi, Rhymbox, and many other clients 
> prompt the user for his JID instead of the usual user/host combination.  I 
> think it would be quite confusing for the user to input one JID but end up 
> with another.  Is this a UI flaw?

Yes, I think so. I can have the c2s connection on a host known by the name
jabber.ik.nu and still have ik.nu JIDs (using SRV DNS records and having
jabber.ik.nu be an alias for ik.nu in the server's configuration).

-- 
Groetjes,

Ralphm