[Twisted-Python] XMPP authentication question : when is the username sent?

Gabriel Rossetti gabriel.rossetti at arimaz.com
Fri Sep 5 09:55:36 EDT 2008


Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:35:15 +0200, Gabriel Rossetti 
> <gabriel.rossetti at arimaz.com> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am trying to figure out how the auth works, for this I used the 
>> simple example client. The question is, when is the username sent? In 
>> the output I never see the username being sent, I see the server at 
>> some point sending it to me.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Gabriel
>>
>> Username is : test_user at localhost
>>
>> Output :
>>
>> [snip]
>> sasl'>dXNlcm5hbWU9InRlc3RfdXNlciIsbm9uY2U9IjE0NTM4NDY3NDMiLGNoYXJzZXQ9dXRmLTgscmVhbG09ImxvY2FsaG9zdCIscW9wPWF1dGgsY25vbmNlPSJhN2RkOTY1MGFmNTA4MTU2YTc1ZjE3ODQwMzZmNTQ0OCIsbmM9MDAwMDAwMDEsZGlnZXN0LXVyaT0ieG1wcC9sb2NhbGhvc3QiLHJlc3BvbnNlPTg1MWZiZmMwYTczNWRmZDFiODZkNmMzZDg0MmI2NWQ3</response> 
>>
>
> There it is.  'dXNlcm...'.decode('base64') == 'username="test_user",...'
>
> Jean-Paul
>
Ok, I thought that was the password, and that something maybe wasn't 
printing out to stdout, makes sense now. Thank you,

Gabriel




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