Re: [Gaim-devel] Warning 422 annoyance on IRC plugin

[Christian H. <ch...@gn...>]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:20:50PM -0500, Evan Doughty wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 18:08, Christian Hammond wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:25:12AM -0800, Mark Atwood wrote:
> > > Many IRC servers do not have a MOTD file, and when a client connects
> > > to them, they get a "422 No MOTD file" warning.  It's a completely
> > > harmless warning, and I think it's a wart on the IRC protocol that it
> > > even gets reported to the clients.
> > >=20
> > > The Gaim IRC plugin pops up a dialog box when it receives a warning
> > > code from the server.  Including this one.  Which happens a lot.
> > > Would it be difficult to modify the IRC plugin to ignore harmless
> > > warnings?
> >=20
> > What version?
>=20
> Well, I'm running CVS and it does this. My CVS build is a few days old,
> though. I'll update it and see if it's still there.
>=20
> Personally, I think it's ok that we push the error through, but I think
> maybe we should say exactly what the error is. Currently, we do an alert
> with "IRC Error 422" and that's it.=20

What server are you using? I have not seen this error.

Christian
=20
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