Connection problems and strange stuff in log

This is all "by design" and correct. What more, this should happen regardless what client you use, etc....
The thing is that I wanted to be able to print logs in such a way to protect users' privacy. So only information that are critical to debugging are exposed and users' personal data like passwords, or message content is hidden. Instead the Tigase prints how much character data (CDATA) was in this place.

I think this is a critical thing for public or any production installation. You want your logs to be able troubleshoot problems, and users do not want you to look at their chats, passwords are much less of a problem, since you as an admin have access to the DB with passwords anyway.

That said, I have to admit, this protection has not been implemented in all places in the Tigase code, hence you can sometimes see the message content if it is printed by some components, but most of the time it should be replaced with 'CData size: NNN'.

There is a way to switch it off though. Printing the whole packet content with all character data (passwords, message content, etc..) can be very useful during development time or debugging a new installation at setting things up time.

It is as simple as adding line to your init.properties file:

--packet.debug.full=true

or as JVM property:

-Dpacket.debug.full=true

There is also a way to change it at runtime.

Thanks, good to know!

Thanks!