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Daryl Herzmann
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Jan 2, 2008 7:46 AM

Case sensitive JIDs now with 3.4.x

 

Good day everyone,

 

 

I ran into something strange with my upgrade to 3.4.x and was curious if there is a reason to this madness

 

 

1) Users create accounts via an online web form, that then uses UserService plugin to create the account (works great, thanks!).  Users will often request a jabber ID in mixed case, but I convert this to lowercase before submitting to UserService plugin.

 

 

2) Users then go configure Pidgin using this mixed case JID, while the server has all lowercase.  I note on the webform that their screenname is all lowercase, but they don't read it (silly users )

 

 

Prior to Openfire 3.4.x , Pidgin users could connect to the server.

 

 

Now with Openfire 3.4.x, the Pidgin users need to modify their account to set the screen name to all lowercase.

 

 

So the question is, did something change on Openfire's end to cause this?  I don't seem to recall anything in the CHANGELOG about it.

 

 

Note, I don't think this is a bug on Openfire's side, but am curious if something did change.

 

 

Thanks for a wonderful product!

 

 

daryl

 

 

Tags: pidgin, jid, case, sensitive
  • Gaston Dombiak Jiver
    Gaston Dombiak
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    Jan 2, 2008 9:36 AM (in response to Daryl Herzmann)
    Re: Case sensitive JIDs now with 3.4.x

    Hey Daryl,

     

    If nothing except the server was updated/changed then it has to be the server's fault. Are you using Openfire 3.4.3? Was it happening in Openfire 3.4.2? For the 3.4.3 we made some optimizations to users' JID specially in the login area. So it is possible that one of those optimizations (i.e. reduction of stringprep operations) introduced that problem. Let me know if you don't see this problem with the 3.4.2 version and it only happens with the 3.4.3 version.

     

    Thanks,

     

      -- Gato

    • Daryl Herzmann KeyContributor
      Daryl Herzmann
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      Jan 2, 2008 10:59 AM (in response to Gaston Dombiak)
      Re: Case sensitive JIDs now with 3.4.x

       

      Hi Gato,

       

       

      This quirk appeared with my upgrade to 3.4.1 from 3.3.something.  Bah, my initial post was lame.  Lets  give you something to work with here!

       

       

      1) Install openfire 3.3.1

       

       

      2) Created user UPPERlower via admin interface, username is lowercased on the console afterwards.

       

       

      3a) Setup pidgin with "UPPERlower" as the screen name, I can login.

       

       

      3b) Setup pidgin with "upperlower" as the screen name, I can't login.

       

       

      (Hmmm, so this is different than my initial post.  Maybe not using UserService plugin made a difference.)

       

       

      4) Created user "via_plugin" via the UserService plugin

       

       

      5a) Setup pidgin with "via_plugin" as the screen name, I can login.

       

       

      5b) Setup pidgin with "Via_Plugin" as the screen name, I can login as well, Ah ha!

       

       

       

       

       

      So Lets install openfire 3.4.3...

       

       

      1a) Setup pidgin as "Via_Plugin", can't log in.

       

       

      1b)  Setup pidgin as "via_plugin", works!

       

       

      2a) Setup pidgin as "UPPERlower",  can't log in.

       

       

      2b) Setup pidgin as "upperlower", works!

       

       

      3) Created account "via_plugin_343" via User Service plugin

       

       

      4a) Setup pidgin as "via_plugin_343", works!

       

       

      4b) Setup pidgin as "Via_Plugin_343",  can't log in.

       

       

       

       

       

      Strange eh?  I can tell something changed on the server end, as when I upgraded to 3.4.1 , I had a couple hundred clients that couldn't connect Invariably, they had mixed case Screen names.

       

       

      daryl

       

       

    • Daryl Herzmann KeyContributor
      Daryl Herzmann
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      Jan 2, 2008 11:22 AM (in response to Gaston Dombiak)
      Re: Case sensitive JIDs now with 3.4.x

       

      Hi Gato,

       

       

      Attached is the Pidgin debug console. I first attempt as 'via_plugin' and it logs in.  I then attempt 'Via_Plugin' and it fails.

       

       

      daryl

       

       

    • Daryl Herzmann KeyContributor
      Daryl Herzmann
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      Jan 2, 2008 11:23 AM (in response to Gaston Dombiak)
      Re: Case sensitive JIDs now with 3.4.x

      This time attached, I hope

       

      daryl

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