Bug #123808 for Bot-BasicBot: sasl support

Sat Dec 02 19:21:43 2017 neil [...] watson-wilson.ca - Ticket created

Subject:	sasl support
Date:	Sat, 2 Dec 2017 19:12:27 -0500
To:	bug-Bot-BasicBot [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Neil H Watson <neil [...] watson-wilson.ca>

I moved to AWS and attaching to freenode from there required SASL authentication. I can't find anything in Bot::BasicBot that supports this. -- Neil Watson Linux/UNIX Consultant http://watson-wilson.ca @neil_h_watson

Tue Dec 05 08:47:35 2017 davidp [...] preshweb.co.uk - Correspondence added

On 2017-12-03 00:21:43, neil@watson-wilson.ca wrote: Show quoted text

> I moved to AWS and attaching to freenode from there required SASL > authentication. I can't find anything in Bot::BasicBot that supports this.

Yeah, there's no SASL support built-in yet, but I agree that it would be useful - patches definitely welcome. OTTOMH, I think it'd need to be supported in PoCo::IRC first, then Bot::BasicBot and Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable could be updated to use it. It shouldn't be a hugely difficult thing to do - SASL plain, at least, is fairly simple stuff, PoCo::IRC would just have to respond to the appropriate CAP response that says the server supports SASL PLAIN by checking if it was given credentials, and if so, sending them in the appropriate way. I'm not sure I'll have time to work on that myself for some time, though.

Tue Dec 05 08:47:36 2017 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Thu Feb 01 15:50:08 2018 davidp [...] preshweb.co.uk - Correspondence added

On 2017-12-05 13:47:35, BIGPRESH wrote: Show quoted text

> OTTOMH, I think it'd need to be supported in PoCo::IRC first, then > Bot::BasicBot and Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable could be updated to use it. > > [...] > I'm not sure I'll have time to work on that myself for some time, > though.

I haven't had time yet. I have, however, raised RT #124292 as a wishlist ticket for SASL support in Poco::IRC, just in case anyone else felt like taking it on.