On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 02:48:55 +0200
Jonathan Schleifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> "Matthew Wild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > If they type it manually then they know what they are doing, and
> > when they come to type the stanza for resource binding, they will
> > read the RFC and see that it recommends not specifying a resource :)
> 
> Which is IMO a painfully bad idea for users with instable connections.
> They will have thousands of resources online after a short while and
> you don't know which to msg. Very, very bad idea, IMO. Makes it
> totally unusable with an unstable conenction. You *WANT* a static
> resource then, so you can replace the old, dead connection.
> 

Very good point!

Btw, is there a real reason to use randomized resource strings... or is
it just to overcome bugs made by client and server developers?

Pavel

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