Problems staying connected to jabber.org

Hi all,

I've noticed a problem with staying connected to jabber.org, a problem that  
actually predates the recent outage.  The problem is sporadic but clustered:  
it seems the client/server goes through a bad patch and then (some hours  
later) things seem to recover.

I believe the cause is the jabber.org server sending the following message:

<presence from="[email protected]/Kopete-work" type="unavailable" 
to="[email protected]/Kopete-work"/>

I'm monitoring the connection to jabber.org using Kopete's XML Console.  This  
uses a different colour for the two communication directions (client-to-server  
and server-to-client).  The above message has the same colour as the opening  
fragment:

<?xml version='1.0'?><stream:stream xmlns='jabber:client' 
xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams' from='jabber.org' 
id='b9c991d1567330c3' version='1.0'>

so I believe both messages to come from the jabber.org server.

What appears to happen is the server sends an updated status to the client  
describing the client's own availability.  I don't know XMPP enough to say if  
this is legal, but it looks fishy.

Kopete honours the presence message and switches to an offline state (for the  
jabber.org connection) but the TCP connection remains established.

Sometimes there are additional messages from jabber.org, despite the client  
being offline (for jabber.org).  These seem mostly to be the status of  
(remote) accounts, so might be the results from status queries that were in- 
flight when the server told the client to go "offline".

These messages received while "offline" can even trigger Kopete to "bounce".   
The sequence of states is online --> offline --> online.  I guess this is  
achieved in the same fashion as going offline: a 'presence' message from the  
server; however this has happened only a few times and I wasn't capturing the  
XML stream during those times.

The few times kopete "bounced" back online were always short lived.  They were  
followed by kopete switching offline again: online --> offline --> online -->  
offline.  I haven't seen kopete switch back online again having gone offline a  
second time.  Manual intervention is needed .. but then kopete would switch  
back offline again after a short pause (a delay between a few seconds .. a few  
minutes) from another 'presence' message.

Some time later (typically many hours, although it's hard to know exactly),  
the problem seems to recover.  There no further indication of the problem and  
everything is fine.

HTH,

Paul.
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