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Justin Karneges wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 January 2006 10:57, Magnus Henoch wrote:
>> I'm trying to make my Jabber server require people registering an
>> account enter an e-mail address for password retrieval and such (in
>> practice, it might be too obnoxious to _require_ this, but that's
>> beside the point).  From JEP-0077, I imagined that I would just add an
>> <email/> tag to the registration form, and return a <not-acceptable/>
>> error if the form is inadequately filled out.
>>
>> However, neither Psi 0.9.3, Gajim 0.8.2, nor tkabber 0.9.8 liked that
>> idea.  They all stayed with their own ideas of how a registration form
>> would look, and failed to register an account.
> 
> In the old days (and possibly still today), clients often bolted account 
> registration onto an existing login dialog with a simple checkbox saying 
> "register the account".  If checked, the client would attempt to create the 
> account based on the login information you provide, prior to logging in as 
> normal.

You could still have done this way, with one additional step:
If some more fields are required, popup a small dialog "This server
requires additional information to register" with the extra fields.

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Maciek
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