XSF Discussion - 2019-12-22

“17:41:44 Zash> I can't remember seeing an actual password-protected MUC”, I once was on an IRC channel that was password-protected, biboumi handled that transparently for me.

Once upon a dream?

I know people who use biboumi with password-protected IRC channels right now

So it's a thing

I think trying to remove it from the protocol this way is a bad idea

Remove it from the UI, sure

Who's removing it from the protocol?

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Is purposely pretending passwords don't exist

Would it be okay for it to be an extension?

That was proposed on the list

And it became a discussion about whether clients should be expected to preserve extensions they don't understand when modifying items

Yeah, that's the part that I found

Which doesn't work with how most xml parsers work

Preserving extensions you do not know raises just the bar for implementations, and, probably depending on the parser, is not trivial to implement reliable for every corner case

e.g. the XmlPullParser in Smack has an XML_ROUND_TRIP feature which makes it easy, but it is not available everywhere

There are complaints in my adb log about a feature missing in XmlPullParser...