[jdev] No realm from server

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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In the replacement for RFC 3920, DIGEST-MD5 will be replaced by SCRAM,
so start working on those SCRAM implementations. ;-)

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-sasl-scram

However, I am sure that DIGEST-MD5 will be supported for backward
compatibility many years into the future...

On 11/9/09 10:24 PM, Sebastiaan Deckers wrote:
> Replying to an old message as I just faced a similar issue and want to
> document/discuss the solution.
> 
> Both RFC2831 (Digest SASL) and RFC3920 (XMPP Core) do not specify what
> the realm should be treated as by the client if it is missing from the
> challenge.
> 
> Treating the missing realm as an empty string is how it seems to work
> with existing servers. This is also implied in RFC3920bis (draft 09
> #7.2.7 Realms).
> 
> Sebastiaan
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Dieter Lunn <coder2000 at gmail.com
> <mailto:coder2000 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     What is the preferred course of action when the client doesn't receive
>     a realm from the server in an SASL challenge?
> 
>     Dieter Lunn
>     http://www.coder2000.ca
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