[Standards] XEP-0065: SOCKS5 acknowledgement after stream activation

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Jakob Schroeter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue May 1 2007, Justin Karneges wrote:
>>> On Monday 30 April 2007 3:37 pm, Jakob Schroeter wrote:
>>>> However, it seems this is not inline with the SOCKS5 spec[1], e.g.
>>>> immediately after the proxy acknowledged the connection to the target
>>>> (Section 4.6 in XEP-0065) the stream is ready to be used as far as 
>>>> SOCKS5
>>>> is concerned. So calling this a 'SOCKS5 acknowledgement' is wrong, 
>>>> IMHO.
>>> You're right, this looks like a goof.  Example 19 and the text above it
>>> should be removed I think, although I have not double-checked with my 
>>> own
>>> code.
>>>
>>>> Further, it appears neither of the clients I tested against
>>>> (Iris/Kopete/Psi, Gajim, Tkabber) nor proxy65 are sending or expecting
>>>> such additional byte/s (if it were SOCKS5, it'd be at least two bytes:
>>>> X'05', X'00').
>>> The SOCKS5 snippets in the XEP use a short-hand, they do not describe
>>> entire packets.  I believe the "STATUS = X'00'" refers to the entire
>>> response packet, and that is just the only field we care about.  E.g. 
>>> this
>>> would have been the same as the meaning of Example 15.
>>>
>>>> Is this a left-over from an earlier revision? Would peeple be 
>>>> interested
>>>> in a (in-band?) stream-active notification from stream host to target?
>>> For what purpose?
>>
>> A simple file retrieval protocol could use it, similar to the good old 
>> 'fax polling'. Anyway, I was just wondering about this when 
>> implementing 0065, and it'd be fine with me if Example 19 would be 
>> removed as you proposed.
> 
> That seems correct.

Er, no, I think it's a simple copy-and-paste error, where I didn't 
change "Target" to "Initiator". The text should say:

******

The Proxy MUST then send SOCKS5 acknowledgement of the connection to the 
Initiator.

Example 19. StreamHost Acknowledges Connection to Initiator

STATUS = X'00'

******

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
XMPP Standards Foundation
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