Re: [PATCH] rcirc: support TLS/SSL and arbitrary connection method

[Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter@gmx.de>]

On 2011-05-31 09:55 UT, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:

TZ> On Mon, 30 May 2011 23:46:30 +0200 Marco Pessotto <melmothx@gmail.com> wrote:

MP> I'm writing you to submit a patch for rcirc.el to give it support
MP> for SSL connections.
TZ> ...
MP> +(require 'tls)
TZ> ...
MP> + (if use-tls + (setq process (open-tls-stream server nil server
MP> port-number)) + (setq process (open-network-stream server nil server
MP> port-number))))

TZ> Recent trunk versions of Emacs have an `open-network-stream' that
TZ> supports the built-in GnuTLS code directly.That's much better than
TZ> `open-tls-stream'.Could you look at that and maybe use it?

TZ> Also I sent Ryan a patch recently to add auth-source support to
TZ> rcirc.el, but haven't heard back.I originally posted it to the
TZ> emacs-bug mailing list a few months ago and can resend it.I haven't
TZ> applied it because I don't use rcirc.el myself.

TZ> Ted

As you brought it up - are there actually plans to make erc use
auth-source?

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Philipp Haselwarter