Re: [Standards] Proposed XMPP Extension: Server IP Check

[Jonathan Schleifer]

Am 10.03.2009 um 22:07 schrieb Peter Saint-Andre:

On 3/10/09 3:04 PM, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:

Why do we need to send what we think is our IP? IMO, this is completely

useless, as it doesn't matter at all.

says you need to implement it in your client.

We had discussions about this in Brussels. Some people want this. No one

For which reason do we need that?

It only means extra work for the
client developers, which means they need to find a portable way to

one IP. I think this puts unnecessary burdens on client developers.

detect the IP adress on all interfaces. Plus this only allows specifying

returns the IP address that it sees as the IP from which the client
connected.

Another option is not to send the client's IP at all and the server just

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Jonathan


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Jonathan

That's exactly what I proposed - I don't want to worry about getting an IP from the interface for which I know it's wrong in 90% of the cases anyway.

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