Bug 65362

Summary:	Can't connect to account when avatar is too big
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Dan Vrátil <dvratil>
Component:	gabble	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	xclaesse
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Dan Vrátil 2013-06-04 16:35:33 UTC

I've accidentally uploaded a big image as my account avatar, now when I try to connect to that account, I get

mcd_connection_invalidated_cb: Proxy destroyed (WOCKY_XMPP_STREAM_ERROR_POLICY_VIOLATION (#13): XML stanza is too big)

and connection is terminated.

Either it should not be possible to upload an avatar that does not fit into a stanza, or the stanza should be just ignored. Simply put, it should still be possible to connect :-)

This happens with a slightly outdated git build of telepathy-mission-control and telepathy-gabble.

Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2013-06-04 17:42:40 UTC

Unfortunately, we can't know how much your XMPP server will allow in a stanza.

If your UI allowed changing your account's avatar (as stored in Mission Control) while offline, you could do that, and we'd upload the the new (presumably smaller) avatar instead. I don't think Empathy allows that (feature request?), but it's meant to work.

A forget-avatar subcommand in mc-tool would also make sense.

Comment 2 Simon McVittie 2013-06-04 17:48:04 UTC

XMPP Core says:

> A deployed server's
> maximum stanza size MUST NOT be smaller than 10000 bytes, which
> reflects a reasonable compromise between the benefits of
> expressiveness for originating entities and the costs of stanza
> processing for servers.

but Gabble shouldn't impose that limit, because perfectly ordinary Base64'd avatars are already likely to exceed it.

Comment 3 Xavier Claessens 2013-06-05 08:05:21 UTC

Gabble could catch that error and retry to connect without the avatar. Or at least we need to display an explicit messages to user with a "change avatar and reconnect" button.

Comment 4 GitLab Migration User 2019-12-03 19:58:53 UTC

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