Clarify server parameter is optional (e.g. when using SRV records)
Categories
(Chat Core :: XMPP, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: mf, Unassigned)
References
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.2 Safari/605.1.15
Steps to reproduce:
I tried to connecting to an XMPP server that implements XEP-0368 ( https://compliance.conversations.im/test/xep0368/ ). It means while my username is user@example.com, the actual server address is chat.example.com. However, account adding UX doesn't indicate that at the last step "server" setting is optional and will override everything that is checked under XEP-0368. Thus if I simply type "example.com" there, as my username suggests, my connections will fail without explicit error.
Actual results:
Thunderbird XMPP connection times out on every attempt. No error is provided.
Expected results:
Thunderbird XMPP connection should follow SRV records and automatically adjust the server name if the value provided explicitly in "server" creates connection errors. OR the UI should provide some error message.
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Updated•5 years ago
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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I tried to clarify the title a bit, hopefully I got it right.
I suspect we can simply add an "(optional)" to the server setting to make it clearer that it doesn't need to be provided.
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Comment 2•5 years ago
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Well, the wizard has a big text on top "Feel free to skip this step if you want to" (== everything is optional). So I don't think I see what we should change here.
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Comment 3•5 years ago
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I think we can close this, per comment 2 there's not much more we could/should do.
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