GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 628757
salut/local_xmpp account presents hostname and no way to edit it
Last modified: 2010-09-07 08:07:18 UTC
Empathy uses your host name (the name of your computer) while pidgin gives you the choice of specifying/customizing the hostname. Empathy allows the user to change/customize the published name but not the hostname which is presented when using salut/local_xmpp. Please allow user to modify the hostname bit. You can currently see this info by going to Edit > Personal information. It is displayed as: published_name@host_name Please see original bug for more details, discussion and example screenshots of the issue. Originally reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550583
Allowing to do so would violate the spec: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0174.html
Hi Guillaume. Thank you for your help in this matter. I have read the spec but cannot find the section saying that you are not allowed to change the host name which is presented to others. Could you specify the section of this spec which this would violate. I was not aware that Pidgin had implemented local_xmpp incorrectly.
In section 1.2 we have: """ You are are using your laptop computer (a machine named "pronto") (...) - The A record specifies the IP address 10.2.1.187 at which the "pronto" machine will listen for connections. - The SRV record (see RFC 2782 [6]) maps the presence service instance "juliet@pronto" to the machine "pronto.local." on port 5562. - The PTR ("pointer") record (see RFC 2317 [7] and RFC 1886 [8]) says that there is a service of type "presence" on the local subnet (".local.") called "juliet@pronto" and that the service communicates over TCP. """ So, as I understand it, we should use the hostname (pronto).