Sergei Golovan wrote:
On 6/27/07, Mridul Muralidharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is not about visual representation.
xep 106 is about encoding pieces of the jid such that they are compliant
with xmpp requirements in a standard way.
Then I would like to ask who should escape JIDs and when? I don't
think that users will read XEP and escape desired characters.
One possible question is: user's client during registration process.
And user will be surprised looking at his new brand escaped JID.
Hi,
There are deployments where uid's are standardized - like using email
id. So the user id is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the full jid would be
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The client would take in [EMAIL PROTECTED] as userid, imdomain as the xmpp
domain and then construct the jid appropriately (using the xep specified
encoding). At the server, it would retrieve the individual parts,
unescape each and uniquely identify the uid to be used for that user in
that xmpp domain (property store, authentication, etc).
I am just giving a possible usecase (albeit something which is supported
by us for example) - you can come up with many others too.
In the above example, if the user wants to put his JID in his business
card, he will need to specify "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - since that
is his xmpp jid to which he is accessible at (if imdomain is a federated
server for example) - just like he would put "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as his email.
Hope this clarifies and also gives one usecase of how escaping and
unescaping are required.
Regards,
Mridul
