On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 15:11, Andrew Suffield wrote: > Somebody got ircnet to support 005 instead of the random stuff they > used to have? I thought they were stubbornly doing their own thing > still... (haven't been able to connect to ircnet in months, silly > ineptly paranoid server admins). FYI, the random stuff they use for 005 is a 'bounce message', like the Location response-header in HTTP. It's used to instruct a client to break the connection and connect to a different IRC server, and to tell the client which server to connect to. In other words, it's useful, but still has a namespace clash with what everyone else thinks 005 is supposed to mean. Fortunately, the format of the 005 numeric's parameters on IRCnet and on the other networks is quite different, so they're easy to distinguish. For reference, IRCnet sends: 005 Try server <host>, port <port> Everyone else sends: 005 <stuff> :are supported by this server So, if the parameters fit the regular expression '^Try server .*, port [0-9]*$' then it's IRCnet's 005; otherwise it's everyone else's 005. A hassle, sure, but not a huge one. Regards, Alex. -- PGP Public Key: http://aoi.dyndns.org/~alex/pgp-public-key -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s:++ a18 C++(++++)>$ UL+++(++++) P--- L+++>++++ E---- W+(+++) N- o-- K+ w--- !O M(+) V-- PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP+(+++) t* 5-- X-- R tv b- DI D+++ G e h! !r y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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