On Thu, Jun 23 2011, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> So you have to know in advance that the server supports STARTTLS or not,
> which is kinda, er, stupid.

Yes, but since TLS in IRC servers is just not wide spread, I think I
would not spend too much time thinking about it for now. But I'm glad
you did! :-)
You should let it be a server "parameter", like SSL. It'd be enough
IMHO, until IRC over TLS spreads. :)

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Julien Danjou
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