[jdev] PyMSNt 0.11 release

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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Norman Rasmussen wrote:
> On 2/17/06, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at jabber.org> wrote:
>> Well, aside from gateway implementation issues (hardcoding resources),
>> it seems to me that entities other than IM users could engage in file
>> transfer -- e.g., it would be cool to be able to attach a file to a
>> multi-user chat room via JEP-0065. So I think the requirement is overly
>> restrictive, especially since it does not seem to be security-critical
>> (and for example proxy65 doesn't enforce it anyway).
> 
> AFAIK the reason why things were changed this way, is because the
> gajim team made an assumption that you can't do an FT with a bare jid
> (and therefore disabled the FT menu items), because you have to send
> iq packets to do the FT, and iq packets must always be addressed to
> the full jid.  (of course, the barejid=fulljid with transports).

You can exchange IQs with a bare JID, but they go to something other
than a client. For normal XMPP users, that "something else" is the
Jabber server. For MSN users contacted through a gateway, that
"something else" is the gateway itself.

> I think the PyMSNt resource = 'msn' is a 'workaround' for the gajim
> bug.  (Which I think has also been fixed in gajim svn).

JEP-0100 includes the following note:

******

If the Legacy Service to which the Gateway connects does not support a
concept equivalent to that of Jabber "resources" as described in RFC
3920 [8], the 'from' address of message stanzas generated by a gateway
SHOULD NOT include a resource identifier (i.e., they SHOULD be of the
form <user at host> rather than <user at host/resource>). However, the 'from'
address MAY include a resource if the Gateway determines that this is
appropriate in the context of its communications with the Legacy Service.

******

So there is no requirement for a gateway to add resources.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.shtml

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