[jdev] Custom authentication errors

[Vinod Panicker]

On 5/30/06, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at jabber.org> wrote:
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> Vinod Panicker wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a use case where the server needs to return specific messages
> > to the client in case of authentication failures.  I looked at the
> > schema and it's pretty restrictive in what is being allowed during the
> > sasl handshake.
> >
> > Would it make sense to relax the schema to allow text between the
> > error conditions, say like this -
> >
> > <failure xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl'>
> >  <temporary-auth-failure>Server under maintenance, please try after
> > some time.</temporary-auth-failure>
> > </failure>
> > </stream:stream>
>
> I think is would be better to emulate the structure of stanza errors:
>
> <failure xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl'>
>  <temporary-auth-failure/>
>  <text>Server under maintenance, please try after
> some time.</text>
> </failure>
> </stream:stream>

Sounds good to me.  Could we also have the <text/> element within a
<success/> element too?  Thats another use case that I have.  Would
you be pushing these changes in 3920bis?

Regards,
Vinod.