[OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (MQTT-9) If the Connect flags indicate that he user name exists but none is present in the payload treat this as a malformed CONNECT packet.

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Richard Coppen commented on MQTT-9:
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WD07 states that if the UserName flag is set then the UserName must be present in the payload.
This is now separate from the error handling of Malformed packets which is traced in MQTT-6 and MQTT-50

> If the Connect flags indicate that he user name exists but none is present in the payload treat this as a malformed CONNECT packet.
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>                 Key: MQTT-9
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/MQTT-9
>             Project: OASIS Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core
>         Environment: MQTT Server
>            Reporter: Andrew Banks
>            Assignee: Andrew Banks
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> If the Connect flags indicate that the user name exists but none is present in the payload treat this as a malformed CONNECT packet and disconnect the client.
> See issue-8 as to whether a connack is flowed.

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