On Jul 16, 2007, at 19:31, Jakob Schroeter wrote:
So far I just throw a parse error and disconnect the stream (when I
implemented that, I never thought this would actually happen), but
people
complain about that.
They're complaining to the wrong person, then.
Also, that makes the receiving client look bad. However,
just ignoring the offending character could possibly change the
meaning of
the data, so I don't think this is a good solution, either.
What do you think?
My opinion:
Accepting this data in any way would be the worst thing possible. It
would bring XMPP one step closer to HTML, as already has happened
with RSS (back when I wrote an RSS reader, I spent about 80-90% of
the debugging time trying to parse some XML-like binary data). This
would make life hell for XMPP developers, and should be avoided at
any cost.
andy
