Hi everybody, accordingly to rfc3921 connected resources are resources that have established a binding, and they become available after sending the first presence stanza.
Section 11.1 tells: * Else if the JID is of the form <[EMAIL PROTECTED]/resource> and no available resource matches the full JID, the recipient's server (a) SHOULD silently ignore the stanza (i.e., neither deliver it nor return an error) if it is a presence stanza, (b) MUST return a <service-unavailable/> stanza error to the sender if it is an IQ stanza, and (c) SHOULD treat the stanza as if it were addressed to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if it is a message stanza. This seems that if a resource is connected and not online, that resource can't receive any xmpp stanza from other entities, unless it goes fully online. However server implementations behave slightly different (e.g. ejabberd seems to deliver anything if the resource is correct), and clients ask the roster (or send other iqs to the server) before going online, which should not work if the above rules are strictly enforced. I think that we should better define this point. My position is that we should explicitily allow the delivery of any <iq/> packets if the resource belongs to a connected user, even if not online. In this way clients could perform some <iq/> queries to well known services before going online, thus eliminating one of the few useful cases for invisibility -- Fabio Forno, Ph.D. Bluendo srl http://www.bluendo.com jabber id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
