Hostname vs Realm in XMPP

[Paul]

On 21/05/2013 1:52 PM, Ethan Blanton wrote:
>
> If you create your account as paul at domain.com, and Pidgin does a SRV
> lookup and gets jabber.domain.com, it shoul still log in with
> paul at domain.com.  Are you sure your username is entered correctly?
Yeah, I am sure - I have "paul" in the username field and "airbred.com" 
in the domain field.  Here is the SASL decoded:

username="paul",realm="jabber.airbred.com",nonce="2288122629",cnonce="dpeorOCYJP8E4895e54PuAkIwuNagqA7JNjG11gt/zY=",nc=00000001,qop=auth,digest-uri="xmpp/jabber.airbred.com",response=afbb9d2c323c0a86fe9f77685284dbd9,charset=utf-8

>>I doubt I am the only one where the domain name doesn't match the
>>hostname exactly, so I must have something not configured right.
>>The backend is an ejabberd server.
>
>Those of us with accounts on pidgin.im have exactly this setup, and it
>works correctly.  Google Talk is also this setup, and works correctly.
>Something else is going on here.


Yes, I am assuming so - and I was assuming that ejabberd was the 
difference.  ejabberd doesn't announce the realm when it puts out the 
nonce, unlike jabber2.  I would be surprised if Gtalk didn't announce 
the realm either.

But in the absence of an announced realm, does pidgin take it from the 
domain field?