[TF] IRC macros in TF

[phil.pennock at globnix.o. (P. Pennock)]

On 2003-04-21 at 15:19 -0700, Gwen Morse wrote:
> Here's the series of messages I get when I try to
> connect to a specific server:

> :irc.address.net NOTICE AUTH :*** No ident response;
> username prefixed with ~

That's the server saying "since I can't get an ident response, I'm going
to use the username you provided, putting a "~" in front of it.

> ERROR :Closing Link: [XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] (Ping timeout)

That's the Server sending an IRC Ping to your client and your client not
responding, so the server's closing the connection.

The server sent:

 PING :irc.address.net

Your IRC client needs to then send:

 PONG my.host.name irc.address.net


> ;
> ; Server things we reply to
> ;
> 
> ; server pings
> /def -q -ag -p518  -T"irc.irc" -F -F -t'^PING :(([
> ]|[^ ])+)$' ~ping = \
>    /send -w PONG %P1

Either this trigger isn't getting run, or the IRC server code is more
picky about things than the server code that this trigger was tested
against.  RFC 2812 disallows this particular response.  But the RFCs are
quite recent and before them IRC was a morass of
vaguely-working-together lenient protocols.  Things are slowly changing.

Does using "/send -w PONG my.host.name %P1" fix things?

-Phil
 custos@ircnet