[jdev] Regitering new users with external component

[Waqas Hussain]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:45 AM, Julien Genestoux
<julien.genestoux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> Some people complained about the fact that, despite our XMPP API, users
> still had to register using our HTTP API (or thourgh our website). We agree
> this is a pain, so I wanted to implement user regsitration as well.
> However, I wanted to know if it was possible to manage this regsitration
> within our component, and not on the Jabber server.
> Anyone knows if this is possible?
> Thanks a lot!
> Julien
>
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Yes, components can support registration, but you would need to manage
it on your own (i.e., save the registration data, etc). The relevent
XEP is XEP-0077: In-Band Registration. And you should also also
include <feature var="jabber:iq:register" /> in the disco#info replies
from your component.

Note that this isn't the same as normal registration in that this is
generally used to provide initial login info, which your component
saves along with the JID, and then later you just check the JID of the
sender (and don't need to authenticate every time). MSN/Yahoo/etc
transports work this way.

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Waqas Hussain