Re: Problems staying connected to jabber.org

And Paul Millar spoke on 01/28/2011 10:40 AM, saying:
> 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.
> 

Yes, this is rather fishy.

While troubleshooting another user reporting a similar issue with Pidgin on
jabber.org, I brought your email to the attention of one of the jabber.org
admins.

~Paul

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