Re: JID Case Sensitivity

[Mick Weiss <mweiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jakob Schröter wrote:
> On Wednesday October 10 2007, Hagit Yidov wrote:
>   
> > Hi
> >
> >
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone ran into a problem of JID-case-sensitivity.
> >
> > According to XEP-0029 JID is case sensitive.
> >
> > We are working with 'Openfire', and some where along the line
> >
> > The JID changes to lowercase.
> >
> > Does anyone know anything about this issue?
> >     
>
> Hi,
>
> A JID is not strictly case-sensitive. Only the resource part of a JID is. Both 
> node and domain part are not. However, just converting to lower-case doesn't 
> help, various stringprep profiles are supposed to be applied to the JID parts 
> before you can safely compare them. If you use gloox' JID class *and* have 
> libidn support compiled in, this is taken care of automatically.
>
> BTW, I'm not sure XEP-0029 -- being deprecated -- is the best resource for any 
> info on that topic. Better check RFC3920 directly.
>
> cheers,
> Jakob
>   
As I see it - it is a bug in openfire where it just lowercases the JID 
(this is reproducible within the admin panel of openfire -- w/o even 
using gloox). Is it expected behavior? (I mean - to just go to lowercase).

I might just be misreading something here... so correct me if I am just 
mistaken. :-)

- Mick