[jdev] Re: anonymous login

[JD Conley]

Our implementation of SASL ANONYMOUS does exactly what you mention
below.  It also creates a unique JID without a password that is useable
for just that one login.

What is the difference between that and the fictional "UNIQUE"
mechanism?  I guess I don't get it. :)

JD
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-bounces at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-bounces at jabber.org] On
Behalf
> Of Peter Saint-Andre
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:36 PM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: [jdev] Re: anonymous login
> 
> Ah, true, that's the right place to do it. Sounds like an
Internet-Draft
> may be in order... ;-)
> 
> /psa
> 
> In article <82777bea05020722322a491f29 at mail.gmail.com>,
>  Joe Hildebrand <hildjj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > There are also cases where you just want the server to pick a full
JID
> > for you, and ANONYMOUS is overkill.  Customers coming in to a
customer
> > service site is a good example.
> >
> > It may make sense to come up with a UNIQUE SASL mechanism that tells
> > the server to create a new, unique JID, good for one shot.
> >
> > On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:49:57 -0700, Peter Saint-Andre
> > <stpeter at jabber.org> wrote:
> > > In some applications, it might be helpful for an XMPP server to
assign
> a
> > > JID to an entity that connects with a stream that is qualified by
the
> > > 'jabber:client' namespace (or more precisely assign the node
> identifier
> > > portion of the entity's JID, just as the server can assign the
> resource
> > > identifier of the entity's JID using the resource binding
protocol).
> > > Chatting with someone via IM just now, we worked out the
following:
> > >
> > > 1. entity authenticates via SASL ANONYMOUS
> > >
> > > 2. server tells entity that resource binding is required (via
stream
> > > feature)
> > >
> > > 3. entity requests that server create a resource for it
> > >
> > > 4. server replies with full JID:
> > >
> > > <iq type='result' id='bind_2'>
> > >   <bind xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-bind'>
> > >     <jid>somenode at example.com/someresource</jid>
> > >   </bind>
> > > </iq>
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> 
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