[JDEV] IRC?

[Thomas Charron]

Quoting Jukka Tapani Santala <e75644 at UWasa.Fi>:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 Isotope2k at aol.com wrote:
> > I had very similar questions... 
> > Check out RFC1459, there seems to be a concensus that an IRC
> > transport implementation would be fairly straightforward.
> Careful - the RFC, which isn't on standards track, and never can be - is
> pretty old and outdated. Not neccessarily anything that'd cause an
> immediate problem, but bad enough. Especially as the actual server-server
> communication on IRC is basically properietary to each network (There's
> some major development lines - Hybrid/Bahamut, Dreamforge, Undernet to
> name a few) and I can't see an useful "interface"(*) to IRC without making
> a pseudo-server for the purpose. Getting such a server dropped into any
> major network would be harder than ugly.
> (*) Or would a transport just span a million and one separate connections
> to attack a poor, hapless IRC server..? Can you say... clone-kills!
> Mass-bans! ;)

  One connection per user, just as if the user was natively using an IRC 
client.  We wouldn't simply connect to *one* server, but allow the transport to 
connect to *any* server that the user desires.

  I want to setup the transport URIs in this way:

irc:server at irc.jabber.org/Channel

  Or heck:

irc:server at irc.jabber.org/UserName

  Actually, looking at it, I like this better:

irc:channel at irc.jabber.org/Server

  And

irc:user at irc.jabber.org/Server

  Feel free to speak up, guys, before I get this implemented in code land..  ;-P


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