Re: [Uri-review] [xmpp] XMPP jabber: URI scheme not registered?

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Thu, 29 November 2012 04:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Uri-review] [xmpp] XMPP jabber: URI scheme not registered?
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On 11/28/12 9:37 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> On 11/28/12 8:28 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>>> * Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>>> URI scheme syntax. The only allowable strings are: -
>>>> jabber:client [...]
>>> 
>>> I would prefer if this used some wording that avoids
>>> speculation whether "JABBER:client" or "jabber:%63lient" are
>>> actually prohibited by this and whether it is okay for
>>> individual schemes to specify such constraints. Simply saying,
>>> for example, these strings are used as XML namespace names and
>>> the scheme should not be used for other purposes would do.
>> 
>> I thought that was clear from the section on semantics:
> 
> The problem are the conformance requirements implied by
> "allowable". If you develop a URI Validator and add support for the
> 'jabber' scheme, it is not clear whether strings like
> "JABBER:client" or "jabber:%63lient", or even "jabber:client#"
> should be rejected. These strings are not on the list of
> "allowable" strings, so some will argue they ought to be re- 
> jected, while others will argue per RFC 3986 they ought to be
> accepted.

They ought to be rejected.

Please understand that these namespace names are sent only as the
value of 'xmlns' in XMPP streams. They are not in general use anywhere
else. XMPP software implementations know what to do with them (and I
really doubt that they pass these strings to URI parsers anyway). This
is basically a whitelist of known strings and they are not treated as
URIs anywhere in the XMPP ecosystem.

Peter

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