[jdev] Expected behavior when a presence comes too early

[Daniel Dormont]

Thanks!

dan

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im> wrote:
> On 8/24/11 4:50 PM, Daniel Dormont wrote:
>> Hi, in a BOSH application I'm developing, I accidentally allowed a
>> race condition in which the client would send a presence packet
>> (specifically a MUC presence, but I have a feeling that's not
>> germaine) before the session had been fully established. Specifically,
>> after connecting, the client would send an "auth" packet, but before
>> receiving the <success xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl'/>
>> response, it would go ahead and send the presence.
>>
>> I'm not an XMPP expert and so honestly I'm not entirely sure this is
>> even improper behavior, but if it is, what is the expected response
>> from the server? I ask because in Ejabberd's case it sends a
>> <stream:error> <xml-not-well-formed
>> xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-streams'/> response, which sent me
>> on a wild goose chase looking for malformed XML. If it's a bug in
>> Ejabberd I'm happy to pursue it there but first I wanted to understand
>> the expected behavior a little better.
>
> The proper error condition is <not-authorized/> as noted in RFC 6120:
>
> http://xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc6120.html#streams-error-conditions-not-authorized
>
> Peter
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