Re: Thunderbird and jabber.org

On 3/31/14, 12:28 PM, Waqas Hussain wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 3/31/14, 11:00 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>>
>>> On 3/31/14, 10:31 AM, Philipp wrote:
>>>
>>>> Port : 5223
>>>
>>>
>>> Don't specify the port number.
>>>
>>> I have Thunderbird so I will do some testing, too.
>>
>>
>> Well, I can't log in either. Unfortunately the error reporting is less than
>> complete. Here is what I see in the Thunderbird error console:
>>
>> Timestamp: 3/31/14, 11:10:37 AM
>> Error: Error decoding: nonce="/ONKigqNy8lmswowXo/X0ipuUsNDxszDRbgtDSZanwg="
>> Source File: resource:///modules/xmpp-session.jsm
>> Line: 349
>> Source Code:
>> prpl-jabber
>>
>> Based on a quick look at the code, I'd say the problem might be related to
>> the DIGEST-MD5 authentication mechanism, which is notorious for a lack of
>> good interoperability.
>>
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
> Thanks for the bug report. I'm not a Thunderbird user or developer,
> but this was easy to track down (hooray for being able to view code in
> a browser).
>
> Thunderbird's DIGEST-MD5 message parsing code is too simplistic.
> DIGEST-MD5 messages are of the form 'key=value,key2="value2"'.
> Thunderbird's decoding breaks down if "," or "=" are in the values. In
> this case you are hitting the value containing an "=".
>
> Relevant code here:
> http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/file/9afe71c06fa3/chat/protocols/xmpp/xmpp-authmechs.jsm#l88
>
> The fix would be to change elem.split("=") to [elem.substring(0,
> elem.indexOf("=")), elem.substring(elem.indexOf("=") + 1)]. This will
> not fix "," in strings though. Not sure how well it likes quoted
> values either.
>
> Someone please file a bug report, I have to run off right now :)

Thanks, Waqas. I've forwarded your message to Florian Queze, who worked 
on the original Instantbird code.

Peter

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