[jdev] In-band registration requiring e-mail address

[Joe Hildebrand]

See JEP-77: http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0077.html section 4.

I don't know which clients have implemented this for account  
creation, however.

On Jan 11, 2006, at 2:05 AM, Maciek Niedzielski wrote:

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> Justin Karneges wrote:
>> On Tuesday 10 January 2006 10:57, Magnus Henoch wrote:
>>> I'm trying to make my Jabber server require people registering an
>>> account enter an e-mail address for password retrieval and such (in
>>> practice, it might be too obnoxious to _require_ this, but that's
>>> beside the point).  From JEP-0077, I imagined that I would just  
>>> add an
>>> <email/> tag to the registration form, and return a <not- 
>>> acceptable/>
>>> error if the form is inadequately filled out.
>>>
>>> However, neither Psi 0.9.3, Gajim 0.8.2, nor tkabber 0.9.8 liked  
>>> that
>>> idea.  They all stayed with their own ideas of how a registration  
>>> form
>>> would look, and failed to register an account.
>>
>> In the old days (and possibly still today), clients often bolted  
>> account
>> registration onto an existing login dialog with a simple checkbox  
>> saying
>> "register the account".  If checked, the client would attempt to  
>> create the
>> account based on the login information you provide, prior to  
>> logging in as
>> normal.
>
> You could still have done this way, with one additional step:
> If some more fields are required, popup a small dialog "This server
> requires additional information to register" with the extra fields.
>
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> Maciek
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