On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:06, Rory wrote: > If you permit the user to provide you with a server name and port number > then things become more complicated than they need to be. For instance, > does the user-supplied server name qualify as a valid identity for the > purpose of validating the server's X590 certificate. Or, if there this > is an automated client, should we fall back to checking for DNS SRV > records if there is no server listening at the specified server address? > Do we offer the user configuration options to answer these questions and > the others that arise? ...
More complicated than they "need to be"?
Let's say you remove the option to connect to an alternative IP. This seals
off people like me who _need_ this setting to tunnel their XMPP connection
through a work firewall.
I think the reasonable expectation is that the user's setting always overrides
the DNS, whether SRV records exist or not. If the user specifies both the
host and the port, you shouldn't need to hit DNS at all.
TX
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