[jabber.el] Re: Trying to send ASCII NUL (^@) disconnects my session

[Magnus H. <ma...@fr...>]

[ catching up after summer "vacation"... ]

Mathias Dahl <mat...@gm...> writes:

> 1. Enter a chat with someone.
> 2. Type in (insert 0) and do C-x C-e to insert a ASCII NUL char
> 3. Press RET to send the message
>
> When I do this I get logged out.
>
> Now, sending NUL to ppl is not something I normally do :), I just
> happend to have that character in a messed up source code snippet that
> I wanted to send to a friend.
>
> Personally, I would like Jabber to be able to send ALL characters,
> even though I would accept if it was not possible to send very strange
> characters like NUL.
>
> Can anyone verify this too?

Yes, the XML standard forbids all control characters except tab,
linefeed and carriage return.

I just committed the following patch, which should hopefully take care
of all such cases without breaking anything.

Magnus