Sumurai8 (DD) wrote: > Well... you can actually send every 3 minutes a PONG-message without > listening to the IRC-channel and the server will gladly accept that > ^_^ . That's what I did at the time I didn't know about the > timeout-option of a socket :) But most of the time it is just better > to follow the rules and end each line with \r\n (nice, didn't know > about that, so changed it in my script :) ), send a PONG-msg followed > by everything that was send after the PING-message, etc, etc.
Some ircds will, with every right to do so, not complete your login into the network in that case. Strangely, I don't see that kind of protection in freenode's ircd-seven despite being alledgedly protected from the javascript spam that plagued the last days of hyperion[1]. 1- http://blog.freenode.net/2010/01/javascript-spam/ _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette