[jdev] GSSAPI and service hostname

[Tomasz Sterna]

Dnia 2009-01-15, czw o godzinie 17:21 +0100, Robin Redeker pisze:
> I've received a bugreport for my Perl module AnyEvent::XMPP recently,
> that says that I should not pass the domain of the JID as service hostname
> to SASL (and later the GSSAPI mechanism).

I think you should.

It's server job to map the provided domain name to a specific hostname.
Just like it is server job to map the domain name to a realm, in case of
DIGEST-MD5.


> I also wonder which server supports GSSAPI mechanims, so that I can
> test implementation.

http://jabberd2.xiaoka.com/
Although its not tested much.

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