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#68 nick collisions

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nobody
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2005-01-22
2005-01-19
Chris
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If two users pick the same nick then chat flows to
both of them. While this is an interesting "feature",
users are complaining. Perhaps we should switch this
for the client ID.

Discussion

  • Chris

    Chris - 2005-01-22

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    Looks like this can't be fixed without a protocol breakage.
    It's slotted for waste 2.0, then

     
  • Chris

    Chris - 2005-01-22

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    Found this in the 1.5b2 changelog:

    * You can now send chat to either clientid or public key
    hash or username. This is a commandline only fearure from
    the chat window. Don't bog me making this gui.
    You can also use /whois [pubkeyhash] for example.

    Perhaps I overlooked something in the chat message handling.
    It's possible that before sending a chat packet it resolves
    the hash to the nick and continues using the nick at the
    protocol level, but if that isn't the case, and the protocol
    will actually support hashes then it might be a small change
    to fix this problem. I also came up with an idea to support
    hashes in a backwards compatible way, which is to stick the
    hash in the nick field of the packet and new clients would
    check that field against their hash first and failing that
    check it against the nick. Some GUI enhancements will be
    needed to make this useful though.

    I'm moving this back up to priority 5 because I think it
    might be able to be fixed for 1.5 final.

     
  • Chris

    Chris - 2005-01-22
    • priority: 4 --> 5
     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    the original waste was made like this. so you could have a
    work and home connection, share files/chat on both. remember
    waste was made for secure trusted people. if you cant trust
    the people on your network, you shouldnt be connected to it.

     
  • j

    j - 2005-02-14

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    ya , i've been saying this since v1

     

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