1184898 - Cannot connect to irssi IRC proxy with a password

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1016494

(Chat Core :: IRC, defect)

Description

[Darren Kenny]

I've been using HexChat to connect to an irssi IRC proxy for a while now, but was curious about using the built in chat in Thunderbird.

It doesn't appear to matter what options I set, but I cannot connect to an irssi client running on another computer, where I have the irssi proxy[1] configured with a password.

I'm not using SSL, I don't think irssi proxy supports it, but am using a password to restrict access - and despite specifying a password in the server configuration, it doesn't appear to be sent to the IRC server (the irssi proxy here).

A log of the connection gives me:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(Thunderbird 41.0a2 (20150714004005), Gecko 41.0a2 (20150714004005) on Windows NT 6.3; WOW64)
(14 messages omitted)
[17/07/2015 11:39:36] LOG   (@ prpl-irc: Socket.connect resource:///modules/socket.jsm:148)
Connecting to: starbug-lenovo.ie.oracle.com:16667
[17/07/2015 11:39:36] DEBUG (@ prpl-irc: Socket.onTransportStatus resource:///modules/socket.jsm:549)
onTransportStatus(STATUS_RESOLVING)
[17/07/2015 11:39:36] DEBUG (@ prpl-irc: Socket.onTransportStatus resource:///modules/socket.jsm:549)
onTransportStatus(STATUS_RESOLVED)
[17/07/2015 11:39:36] DEBUG (@ prpl-irc: Socket.onTransportStatus resource:///modules/socket.jsm:549)
onTransportStatus(STATUS_CONNECTING_TO)
[17/07/2015 11:39:36] DEBUG (@ prpl-irc: Socket.onTransportStatus resource:///modules/socket.jsm:549)
onTransportStatus(STATUS_CONNECTED_TO)
[17/07/2015 11:39:36] LOG   (@ prpl-irc: Socket.sendString resource:///modules/socket.jsm:255)
Sending:
CAP LS

[17/07/2015 11:39:36] LOG   (@ prpl-irc: Socket.sendString resource:///modules/socket.jsm:255)
Sending:
NICK Dar

[17/07/2015 11:39:36] LOG   (@ prpl-irc: Socket.sendString resource:///modules/socket.jsm:255)
Sending:
USER Thunderbird 0 * Dar

[17/07/2015 11:39:36] DEBUG (@ prpl-irc: Socket.onTransportStatus resource:///modules/socket.jsm:549)
onTransportStatus(STATUS_SENDING_TO)
[17/07/2015 11:39:36] DEBUG (@ prpl-irc: Socket.onTransportStatus resource:///modules/socket.jsm:549)
onTransportStatus(STATUS_SENDING_TO)
[17/07/2015 11:39:36] DEBUG (@ prpl-irc: Socket.onStartRequest resource:///modules/socket.jsm:480)
onStartRequest
[17/07/2015 11:39:36] DEBUG (@ prpl-irc: Socket.onStopRequest resource:///modules/socket.jsm:489)
onStopRequest (0)
[17/07/2015 11:39:36] ERROR (@ prpl-irc: ircSocket.prototype.onConnectionClosed resource://gre/components/irc.js:721)
Connection closed by server.
[17/07/2015 11:39:36] LOG   (@ prpl-irc: Socket.disconnect resource:///modules/socket.jsm:185)
Disconnect

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I can't see anything on the irssi side other than a connection attempt was made, but was disconnected.

It would be great if you could get this working... I've been using the Aurora channel for a while now, but it still doesn't
appear to fix this issue.


[1] - https://michael.lustfield.net/linux/irssi-as-a-proxy

Comment 1

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

Does http://blog.gerv.net/2015/01/using-instantbird-to-connect-to-irc-servers-requiring-a-username-and-password/ help?

Comment 2

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

(If so, this is possibly a dup of bug 1016494...although this has happened enough times that I wonder if we need a different solution.)

Comment 3

[Darren Kenny]

Thanks Patrick - that's it - I set the serverPassword (no username needed) and it connected immediately!

I would agree that this does appear to be a duplicate of that bug - I did try searching around for good while using Google, but never came across this page :(

Really would be good to get this in the UI somewhere when the feature is there - the password currently being requested then I'm guessing is for NickServ or something rather than the server?