Re: [PATCH] Add option to ERC to make all connections use SSL.

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sat, 2 Aug 2014 12:11:47 -0700 Josh <josh@foxtail.org> wrote: 

J> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Vibhav Pant <vibhavp@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Is there a way to specify it per server?
>> Agreed. I have redone the patch and added some more features:
>> 1. erc-ssl-servers: Alist of servers (ADDRESS PORT) for which ERC will
>> always connect to using SSL.
>> 2. erc-use-ssl: If non-nill, all connections will be made using SSL.
>> 3. erc-ssl-blacklist: Alist of server ERC will connect to without SSL.
>> Only useful when erc-use-ssl is non-nil.

J> This seems likely to interact poorly with the existing server to port
J> mappings
J> in `erc-server-alist'.  Perhaps the information provided by the items above
J> could be specified in e-s-a instead, for example by accepting multiple
J> PORTS arguments of the form (:ssl-ports a b c) and (:non-ssl-ports x y z)
J> and attempting connections in the order in which they appeared.

Agreed. In fact if the ERC maintainer(s) could take a look at this, it
would be greatly appreciated. The original patch was simple but too hard
to turn off, while the second version from Vibhav introduced too many
new configuration options IMO.  Something that fits better with ERC's
existing configuration would be best, as Josh suggested.  I'll stay out
of it to avoid confusing the issue further.

Ted