Find out which method IRC clients actually use/support to note server passwords in IRC URIs

[DanielOaks]

https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/rt-messaging/chatzilla/irc-urls.html says IRC URLs should look like this:

irc://chat.freenode.net/ircdocs?pass=c2spass

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https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-butcher-irc-url-04 says IRC URLs should look like this:

irc://:[email protected]/ircdocs

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The Mozilla doc is apparently what ChatZilla supports. The Butcher one has the mention down the bottom "The input of Petr Baudis, Robert Ginda, Piotr Kucharski, Perry Lorier, Khaled Mardam-Bey, Dominick Meglio, James Ross, and Samuel Sieb, was greatly appreciated, and this draft would not exist without their valued participation."

The above indicates that both methods could have some level of support out there.

First of all, thanks IRC for not standardising this. Second of all, run through all the relevant clients today and see which sorts of URIs they accept, and how passwords are handled in them. In my doc, spec up what's supported today.

[twpol]

I can confirm that ChatZilla currently only accepts the irc://chat.freenode.net/ircdocs?pass=c2spass format for server passwords, despite all of its developers at the time (myself included) being listed in that draft's acknowledgements.

[DanielOaks]

nice, thanks very much for the info!