Re: [feature/rcirc-update] Reconnects don't seem to work anymore

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
> Hi Philip,
>
>>> I'm now on 1181c606b3 but still "/msg nickservx test" will message
>>> "ickservx test" to the user N on libera.chat.  I'd much prefer if
>>> that told me that there is no (online) user nickservx rather than
>>> messaging some mostly random stranger.
>>
>> I can imagine that both use-cases could be of interest, so it would
>> probably be best to add a flag to regulate this.
>
> Fine with me but I'm keen to learn about the use-case where the current
> behavior is wanted.  I guess there is a use-case because otherwise the
> IRC server wouldn't have that implemented as-is.

I was thinking about when you want to message a friend who is currently
marked as away.

> And IMHO when messaging nickserv or other service bots receiving
> confidential data, the current behavior is not acceptable.  I'm not sure
> if the automatic authentication in terms of `rcirc-authinfo' checks if
> nickserv (or whatever) is actually available and, if not, falls into
> that trap just as I did by messaging the non-existent NickServ manually.

That is true.  It shouldn't be hard to add a check to ensure this.

> Bye,
> Tassilo

-- 
	Philip K.