XMPP vCard inconsistency

[Georgi Kirilov]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:18:11 -0500
"Mark Doliner" <mark at kingant.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:46:27 +0300, Georgi Kirilov wrote
> > I think the fields names might have been swapped accidentally.
> > Also there are some mismatches between the search form, the results 
> > list and the setinfo dialogs - some fields are called differently, 
> > and some are missing from one of the three dialogs - e.g. there is 
> > no "Name" and "Middle Name" in the vCard dialog.
> 
> So here's what's happening.  Pidgin's Set User Info/Edit Your vCard dialog
> uses the field names listed in the XMPP vCard XEP
> (http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0054.html).  We're missing a few of the
> fields listed (like 'middle name'), but we have most of them.
> 
> For the search dialog and the search results, there are two ways to handle this:
> 
> 1. The standard way.  Pidgin uses the fields listed in the XMPP search XEP
> (http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0055.html).  For some reason these field
> names differ from the ones in the vCard XEP.  Pidgin uses the id names of the
> various input boxes here ("First Name" and "Last Name") when we should
> probably use the same strings as the set info dialog ("Given Name" and "Family
> Name").
> 
> 2. The fancy way.  The directory server sends Pidgin the list of fields that
> can be searched, and Pidgin shows these to you.  You search some stuff, then
> the server returns the results to you and again tells you the column names and
> what data should be displayed in each one.
> 
> I've been testing with users.jabber.org which seems to be using the standard
> method, and which seems to work perfectly.  I'm guessing the server you're
> using uses the new method.
> 
> What directory server are you searching?  You can open Pidgin's debug window
> then perform a search and it will print out if it's using the standard method
> ("old-skool") or the fancy method ("new-skool").  If it's using the fancy
> method it's possible that the bug is in the Jabber server you're searching. 
> But it's also possible it's a bug Pidgin.  Please let me know the directory
> server and I'll play around with it.
> 
> -Mark

I searched in vjud.jabber.minus273.org. The method was new-skool as you said, I took a look at the log.