| Subject: | encountered a MOTD with extra carriage return, which hangs AE::IRC |
Hi, I have a user who is trying to connect to an IRC server
(irc.omgwtfhax.net) that has incorrect line endings on their MOTD lines.
All of these lines have an extra carriage return, so they all end with
"\015\015\012". I realize that this means the server is essentially
broken, but it would be nice if AE::IRC could cope with it instead of
just hanging. I fixed this by temporarily overriding AE::IRC's on_read
handler to look like this:
$cl->{socket}->on_read(sub {
my ($hdl) = @_;
$hdl->push_read (line => qr{\015?\015?\012}, sub {
$cl->_feed_irc_data ($_[1]);
});
});
And then setting it back to the original on_read handler after the MOTD
finishes.
Any suggestions on a cleaner way to handle this? Is this something that
should be fixed in AE::IRC, or maybe AE::Handle?