270955 - proxy problems with Chatzilla versions past 0.9.65

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[xaphod]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

I have an IRC proxy.  I connect with Chatzilla 0.9.65, send my password "/quote
pass my_password", and I'm connected.  When I attempt to connect with versions
past 0.9.65 I get a "not connected" message.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. /server mybox:57000
2. /quote pass my_pass

Actual Results:  
"Not Connected" message

Expected Results:  
connected me to my IRC proxy

Comment 1

[James Ross]

You should be able to use either irc://host/?pass=my_password, or
irc://host/,needpass and enter your password into the prompt.

The change is basically by-design - you are NOT connected at this point and so
most commands won't work (those that are configured to require a connected
server). We could make /quote not require a connected server, of course...

Comment 2

[Samuel Sieb]

Can you just use /pass directly instead of /quote?

Comment 3

[James Ross]

No, because unknown commands are simply re-dispatched to /quote commands.

Comment 4

[James Ross]

The question is, does the proxy send any message at this point - if it is, for
example, 464, we can simply replace it (see bug 233831 and attachment 172611 [details] [diff] [review]) to
say to use "/pass" and not quote, then implement /pass to work before you are
connected (which is likely going to be needed to fix bug 233831 anyway).

According to bug 279471, it is 464 at least for the server being used there -
but what about proxies?

Comment 5

[James Ross]

Ok, I think this is kind-of fixed... you have to use /pass instead of /quote
pass, but then that *is* exactly what the message we now show says to do. :)

If anyone who uses a proxy can try a current Mozilla nightly (there is no new
version of ChatZilla been released yet), and see if:
  a) we show the right message:
    Please specify your password using the "/pass" command to continue connecting.
  b) using "/pass my_password" does actually work, and continue connecting.

Thanks.

Comment 6

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Ok, I think this is kind-of fixed... you have to use /pass instead of /quote
> pass, but then that *is* exactly what the message we now show says to do. :)
> 
> If anyone who uses a proxy can try a current Mozilla nightly (there is no new
> version of ChatZilla been released yet), and see if:
>   a) we show the right message:
>     Please specify your password using the "/pass" command to continue connecting.
>   b) using "/pass my_password" does actually work, and continue connecting.
> 
> Thanks.


As a small update, Silver now provides regular 'nightlies' (generated each hour
if there are new commits to CZ sourcecode) of the ChatZilla xpi to be found at
http://twpol.dyndns.org/mozilla/chatzilla/nightly/ . Perhaps this makes the work
of testing this command easier for those who don't want to use Mozilla nightlies
as a whole.

Comment 7

[James Ross]

Since this is, I think, basically the same as bug 279471 I'm marking it FIXED.
If the problem is still in current ChatZilla builds (from addons.mozilla.org)
please re-open it stating what happens.