Miranda and iq with id

[Bron Gondwana]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:18:15 +0100, "Martin Atkins" <mart at degeneration.co.uk> said:
> Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > So &DJabberd::IQ::process contains this:
> > 
> > ||     # Trillian Jabber 3.1 is stupid and sends a lot of IQs (but non-important ones)
> > ||     # without ids.  If we respond to them (also without ids, or with id='', rather),
> > ||     # then Trillian crashes.  So let's just ignore them.
> > ||     return unless defined($self->id) && length($self->id);
> > 
> > And Miranda attempts to update the roster like this:
> > 
> > 22241 DEBUG DJabberd.Connection.XML.ClientIn         2 < <iq type='set'><query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'><item jid='brong at fastmail.fm' subscription='both' name='brong at fastmail.fm'><group>FastMail</group></item></query></iq>
> > 22241 DEBUG DJabberd.Connection.XML.ClientIn         2 < <iq type='set'><query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'><item jid='brong at fastmail.fm' subscription='both' name='brong'/></query></iq>
> > 
> > ==========
> > 
> > Now clearly both clients are in a state of sin and should be taken
> > out the back and quietly put out of their misery, but the reality
> > is that people like using them.  Wow.  And I thought IMAP clients
> > were bad enough.
> > 
> 
> Is the Miranda Jabber plugin open source? Would it be possible to fix 
> it, rather than making DJabberd handle its quirks? That'd presumably be 
> of benefit to all XMPP servers.

http://www.miranda-im.org/

Yeah, looks like it is.  Of course, that doesn't help all the old versions
out there in the wild - but I guess we can just tell them to upgrade.  It's
free, and maybe doesn't even have regressions (I wouldn't know, I don't run
it myself)

Bron ( still betting that a generic quirks mode is better than blindly
       ignoring all messages without an id )
-- 
  Bron Gondwana
  brong at fastmail.fm