Forums Feature Suggestions IRC bouncers

It'd be nice if it supported bouncers the way irssi does. Here is what I'm referring to: http://www.irssi.org/documentation/startup#c10

Colloquy also supports this... but easier to setup. The main benefit of a bouncer is for iPhone/mobile support...

alt+o > connect > firewall

No, that's not what I'm talking about.

I am referring to BNC services shell providers may provide. So, instead of typing /server SHELL-SERVER PORT-NUMBER PASSWORD, then /quote conn SERVER PORT, I could just type /server SERVER PORT and the IRC client itself would handle it in a "set it up and forget it way". That is, it's like it's not even there.

irssi does do this, as I recently tested it.

If you want mIRC to respond to a /quote request, it's very easy to script (1 line is enough). As for password, I don't think mIRC should automatically store passwords. There's nothing hard about typing your password. If you really don't want to do so, you can create your own alias to connect that will add the password for you. Again, this is a really easy thing to script (1 line again).

Things like this are what scripting is for.

I am posting this in the Feature Suggestions for a reason.

Scripting doesn't change how /server is handled by mIRC by default. If I type /server some-IRC-server-here, mIRC is going to try connecting through that, not my shell.

Then you use /bouncer with the exact same format as you'd use with /server (/bouncer irc.whatever.net 1234 mypass), but you don't have to enter your password. It will do so for you. If anything else is always the same (such as port), you can adjust it for that...



With that, you wouldn't ever type the port or the password, as an example.

Note that you can use all of the same /server switches. The only difference without adding a bit more complexity to it is that you can't use the switches that appear after the port/password (-j, -i, etc). And those can be added as well if needed.

Sheesh... maybe a picture will clarify what a "bouncer" is...

There are tons of scripts for that. Like this.

I responded to the request here:



What I showed does exactly that. If other requirements are necessary, the same script can easily be modified to send additional data that you'd normally type manually. Yes, I didn't put in the /quote section in there, though I mentioned it previously. It's just one more line (or a pipe added). Not too hard to do.

I am not mentioning this in the Scripts & Popups section. I am mentioning this in the Feature Suggestions. I am suggesting this feature. I am not asking for a script obviously.

Maybe you people should go try this bouncer for windows first... before you assume that a bouncer is an IRC tunnel or something... it's not... don't you people have an iPhone or Android smartphone?

My sig is sure to get me in trouble...

This is what I'm talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncer_(networking)#IRC

I have added this to my to-do list, however note that it can only be added once the Unicode version of mIRC is released, looks stable, and work begins on updating the interface :-)

The obvious question is: what's wrong with using a script? Why does this need to be built-in?

Well, the same could be said for many other features in mIRC. Almost everything is scriptable. However it is far more convenient and user-friendly to present users with an interface for some features, even if it does take a lot more work.