955335 - Support Q on QuakeNet as an IRC service

Status: NEW

(Chat Core :: IRC, defect)

Description

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*** Original post on bio 1899 by Steven De Groote <stevendegroote AT gmail.com> at 2013-03-16 14:05:00 UTC ***

As I'm an op on an IRC channel, I want to auth myself with Q, the QuakeNet bot. This appears to be impossible with Instantbird.

Basically, there are two alternatives to do so, both don't work:

/auth username password
Instantbird replied with "auth is not a supported command".

Secondly, as Quakenet suggests, one can try:
/msg [e-mail] AUTH username password

This however fails as well. Instantbird falsely notes that '[e-mail]' is not online.

It is possible to:
/msg Q AUTH username password
But Q does not accept this for security reasons.

I think the /auth support is a feature request, but failing to message '[e-mail]' is a bug.

Comment 1

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 1899 at 2013-03-16 14:10:48 UTC ***

/msg sends a msg to a person, it should be used as "/msg <nick> <message>" (as /help msg says). msg is doing what it is designed to do, this is not a big.

It sounds like you want to send a raw command, that would be:
/quote [e-mail] AUTH username password

/auth is not a supported command (and should not be added), the feature request here, I think, is to make our auto-identify work with Quakenet.

Comment 2

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 1899 at 2013-03-26 12:04:01 UTC ***

Confirming and retitling based on comment 1. If this is wrong, please let me know.

Comment 3

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*** Original post on bio 1899 by Steven De Groote <stevendegroote AT gmail.com> at 2013-03-26 19:02:27 UTC ***

I wish to add that it's eventually possible to auth yourself with Q, as follows:

First do:
/msg [e-mail] AUTH username password
This falsely gives "'[e-mail]' is not online.", as mentioned before.

This however creates a seperate chat with [e-mail]. Performing the same /msg in the chatbox with "[e-mail]" does get you authed.

It's of course not obvious, and certainly only a workaround for this issue.

Comment 4

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*** Original post on bio 1899 by Steven De Groote <stevendegroote AT gmail.com> at 2013-03-26 19:05:57 UTC ***

@clokep: Here's what quakenet says on how to do auth without /auth
http://www.quakenet.org/help/q/how-to-register-an-account-with-q

Comment 5

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 1899 at 2013-03-26 19:21:42 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #3)
> I wish to add that it's eventually possible to auth yourself with Q, as
> follows:
> 
> First do:
> /msg [e-mail] AUTH username password
> This falsely gives "'[e-mail]' is not online.", as mentioned
> before.
As I wrote above, you need to do /quote instead of /msg and you won't need to do the below.

> This however creates a seperate chat with [e-mail]. Performing the
> same /msg in the chatbox with "[e-mail]" does get you authed.
> 
> It's of course not obvious, and certainly only a workaround for this issue.

What I'm proposing is that you do nothing on connection and Instantbird just sends your password using the proper commands. Voila, easy.

Comment 6

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

I think we just need to add a clause to http://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/chat/protocols/irc/ircServices.jsm#114 that tries AUTH after NICKSERV.