[Standards-JIG] how to handle IQ while invisible

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Richard Dobson wrote:
> Le Boulanger Yann wrote:
>> when I ask jabber:iq:version to a contact that is invisible, request is
>> forwarded to the client. I think it's normal as ejabberd can't know that
>> someone is invisible (it's just a privacy list), but what should his
>> client do ?
>> If it just doesn't answer, I can know he is invisble (if he were really
>> offline server would have answerd with a recipient-unavailable error
>> message)
>>
>> the only solution for the client would be to ask server to reply instead
>> of the client.
>>
>> it's of course the same thing for others iq.
>>
>> So invisible privacy list is useless, it's easy to discover who is
>> invisible (ok we need to know the resource, but it's not too hard, it
>> never changes)
> 
> Why couldnt the client respond with recipient unavailable, just as the
> server would?

http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0186.html#security discusses this.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
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