Re: know the IP address of the other jabber user in chatting?

On 11/8/09 2:00 AM, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Hello. I was wondering if I could get the IP address of the person I am
> chatting with. We are trying to deploy jabber for the purpose of
> easy-to-reach company help-desk, thus knowing the IP address helps the
> support engineer to remotely connect to the user. As jabberd is managed
> by us we can configure jabber server to set loose of privacy control if
> necessary, our users only use it for support so they are also less
> concern of privacy.
> 
> And we are just comparing it with other potential solutions, if this
> "feature" can be easily done it gives a great reason to start jabber
> deployement now. Thanks in advance!

This is not a standard feature of any XMPP servers, in fact sharing of
IP addresses is forbidden by RFC 3920, which says:

   The IP address and method of access of clients MUST NOT be made
   public by a server, nor are any connections other than the original
   server connection required.  This helps to protect the client's
   server from direct attack or identification by third parties.

Therefore, to add this feature you would need to modify one of the
existing servers.

Peter

-- 
Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/

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