I had a user of my IRC bot report a bug which occurred when he used pipsqueek on a network with "uncollideable channels" introduced in IRCnet ircd 2.10 ( http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/ircd/ircnet210.html )
The bot would connect fine and receive IRC events from PoCo::IRC, but would not receive actual content (like channel names, privmsg text). The hack to fix it was by adding '!' to the public input parsing code in POE::Filter::IRC. Is this something that can be fixed upstream? Also, it would be really cool if PoCo::IRC handled these channels transparently... when you join the channel using the short version (!foo), it actually returns a unique channel name that you need to use for sending all subsequent messages/events to the channel (!2155foo). I assume PoCo::IRC could listen for this and keep a hash of name => ID which it would then use to look up when posting to the server. For a normal channel, the hash would just contain the same value as the key. I can put together some patches after the weekend if it seems worthwhile to do so. My thanks to Henri Vilminko for noticing the problem. Shaun
