156928 - Can't open simultaneous connections to different ports on the same server

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications Graveyard :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[Chris Pimlott]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020711
BuildID:    2002071104

When a connection to server foo, port 6667 is open, trying to open another
connect to server foo, port 6668 results in an error message:

[ERROR]Already connected to foo
[USAGE]server <server-hostname> [<port>] [<password>]



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start ChatZilla
2. /server localhost 6667
3. /server localhost 6668

Actual Results:  [ERROR]Already connected to localhost
[USAGE]server <server-hostname> [<port>] [<password>]

Expected Results:  Opened a second server tab for localhost on port 6668

I understand the rationale behind this behavior, since normally irc://foo:6667
and irc://foo:6668 are the same server (and most servers doesn't look kindly on
multiple connections).

In my case, however, irc://localhost:6667 and irc://localhost:6668 are port
forwardings (via http tunnel) to two different servers.  As a workaround, I can
connect to one as localhost and the other as 127.0.0.1, but then I could only
connect to two servers.

I guess the most practical solution would be a preference option to override
this default behavior, allowing multiple connections to a single host.

Comment 1

[Samuel Sieb]

*** Bug 159419 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[rick graham]

I found the same problem, on windows /attaching to irc.svg.org on the default
port, and then attaching to the port I should have specified (6665) causes
ChatZilla to go into a loop (?) that keeps spitting out the message 'already
connected to irc.w3.org' or something close to that.

Then, attempting to close the client brings up a not responding message box that
shuts down mozilla.  (and prompts for a Microsoft notification on XP)

Rick.

Comment 3

[Anthony Foiani]

<aol>Me Too!</aol>
cc'ing self.

Same situation as reporter here -- would like to use multiple tunnels
off localhost.

Comment 4

[James Ross]

Attachment: Patch for 0.9.28 that fixes the multi-port problem.

This changes three bits of code so that using different ports works fine. It
also fixes a problem where you could hang ChatZilla by trying to connect to a
different port on the same server, in some situations. Also causes the tabs to
show the port if it's not 6667.

Comment 5

[Daniel Bachran]

The proposed patch from silver has been integrated in chatzilla 0.9.29. I have
tested this and verified that opening connections to the same server with
different ports is possible now.

Comment 6

[Robert Ginda]

*** Bug 219683 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[James Ross]

Marking FIXED as this has been checked in, and is in official versions from
http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/chatzilla.