[jdev] Strange Smack SASL response encoding implementation

[Tomasz Sterna]

Hello.

Does anyone have an idea, why Smack (the Java client library) is
producing these invalid challenge response:

<response xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl">=</response>

Notice the single = character in place of empty data.
Single = character is invalid Base64 data and it prevents SMACK logging
in my server on invalid-encoding error.

There is an explicit code in Smack to implement this violation:

  authenticationText = Base64.encodeBytes(response,Base64.DONT_BREAK_LINES);
  if(authenticationText.equals("")) {
      authenticationText = "=";
  }

Somebody obviously had something in mind implementing it.
Am I missing something?


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