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Subject: Re: [OASIS Issue Tracker] Created: (MQTT-8) Create a new CONNACK return code to indicate that the CONNECT packet was malformed.

From: Roger Light <roger@atchoo.org>
To: mqtt-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 08:51:17 +0100

Hi,

Replying to: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/mqtt/201305/msg00023.html

The version 3.1 spec states that the CONNECT packet length takes
priority over the state of the username flag, for backwards
compatibility with version 3 - i.e. if the username flag is set to 1,
but there is no username then the packet is valid but has no username.

Changing this to be considered as a malformed packet may be desirable,
but it is a backwards incompatible change.

Cheers,

Roger