Open Bug 1851040 Opened 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Chatzilla: (some) commands should be case-insensitive like other IRC clients (compatibility)

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Chat, enhancement)

enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: metsa, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0

Steps to reproduce:

typed on Chatzilla e.g. type /MSG nickserv help
or /MSG someone xdcc send SEND 1

Actual results:

Got [ERROR] The command “MSG” is not known to the server.

Expected results:

Both MSG and msg are expected to work identically. Afaik most, if not all, IRC clients (e.g. mIRC) have no issue, with either syntax.

Similarly e.g. /SSLServer irc.example.com -> "The command “SSLSERVER” is not known to the server."

While not strictly a defect, I see no real reasons for this picky case-sensitiveness, especially for compatibility with other clients. I think quite a few guides etc., even help from IRC servers, assume one can type MSG in uppercase and it works.

User Agent string above is fake, spoofing as Tor Browser / Firefox ESR. It's actually SeaMonky 2.35.17

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