Original reporting: http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/thread/30119 My previously working DIGEST-MD5 authentication is not longer being accepted by the server as a proper response, I am getting <failure ...><not-authorized/></failre> instead of the expected <success/> I am using a custom query and database setup; I've checked the queries over and they work fine. If I use the PLAIN mechanism, authentication works as expected. I was wondering if maybe the recent changes to fix Openfire's throwing an exception when it gets subsequent authentication requests may have caused DIGEST-MD5 not to work at all anymore.