42wim/matterircd

Could matterircd please respond to the "CAP LIST" request?

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shindere commented

By default, the irssi IRC client sends a CAP LIST message before sending
the NICK and USER messages.

Since matterircd does not respond to CAP LIST the user registration
cannot happen with irssi in its default mode.

irssi has the -nocap option to its connect command to ask it not to
send the CAP LIST message but this option is currently not
documented in its interactive help system and, as far as I can tell,
there is no way to store it in irssi's
configuration for a given chatnet,
making it impossible e.g. to autoconnect, because the connection
has to be run manually so that one can pass the -nocap option.

It would make things way simpler for end-users if matterircd could simply
honour the CAP LIST message.

hloeung commented

Can't you use no_cap = "yes"; in ~/.irssi/config (or whatever path your irssi is configured to use)?

shindere commented
hloeung commented

Probably missing upstream in the irssi project. I used adding / connecting within irssi then /save to see what configs would be written out to disk in ~/.irssi/config.

shindere commented
hloeung commented

Are you saying that if you connect with -nocap and then /save then the fact that nocap was used to connect will be saved?

Yep. That's how I found it and that's what I'm using right now.

But frankly, in my opinion this does not address the issue. It took me incredible time to find out that I had to use nocap. What would be wrong in simply patching matterircd so that it can deal properly with hte CAP request?

No objection from me. Don'tt know if it's part of the IRC standard. First I heard was when upgrading to the latest irssi broke for me.

42wim commented

Thanks to @hloeung this is now in master

shindere commented