The SVSNICK command allows other servers (and services on
"pseudo-servers") to forcefully change nicknames of remote users.
Syntax: ":<from> SVSNICK <oldnick> <newnick>"
The SVSNICK command itself doesn't change the nickname, but it becomes
forwarded to the server to which the user is connected to. And then this
server initiates the real nickname changing using regular NICK commands.
This allows to still run networks with old servers not supporting the
SVSNICK command, because SVSNICK commands for nicknames on such servers
are silently ignored and don't cause a desync of the network.
This patch implements the core functions to support "IRC Capabilities"
and the IRC "CAP" command as used by other servers and specified here:
<http://www.leeh.co.uk/draft-mitchell-irc-capabilities-02.html>.
It enables ngIRCd to support the defined handshake, but it doesn't
implement any capabilities, so "CAP LS" and "CAP LIST" always return
the empty set and "CAP REQ ..." always fails with "CAP NAK".
On server-links, spoofed prefixes can happen because of the asynchronous
nature of the IRC protocol. So don't break server-links, only log a message
and ignore the command.
This fixes bug 113, see:
<https://arthur.barton.de/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113>
This patch makes it possible to scrub incomming CTCP commands from
other servers and clients alike. The ngircd oper can enable it from
the config file, by adding "ScrubCTCP = yes" under [OPTIONS]. It is
default off.
CTCP can be used to profile IRC users (get user clients name and
version, and also their IP addresses). This is not something we like
to happen when user pseudonymity/secrecy is important.
The server silently drops incomming CTCP requests from both other
servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can
spell trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing.
Scrubbing CTCP commands also means that it is not possible to send
files between users.
There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
commands") requests are not scrubbed. ACTION is not dangerous to users
(unless they use OTR, which does not encrypt CTCP requests) and most
users would be confused if they were just dropped.
A CTCP request looks like this:
ctcp_char, COMMAND, arg0, arg1, arg2, .. argN, ctcp_char
ctcp_char is 0x01. (just like bold is 0x02 and color is 0x03.)
They are sent as part of a message and can be delivered to channels
and users alike.
parse.c:284: warning: suggest parentheses around operand of '!' or
change '&' to '&&' or '!' to '~'
The expression looks dubious, this should probably be
an if-not-set, then... test.
Not all servers (and services!) using the RFC1459 protocol style send
prefixes on all commands; so don't require them to do so.
This relaxes the requirements introduced by commit 15775e679.
When enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an
numeric "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered
in the network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
This is used by QuakeNet for example (ircu/snircd), and looks like this:
NICK nick
:irc.example.net PING :1858979527
USER user . . :real name
PONG 1858979527
:irc.example.net 001 nick :Welcome to the Internet Relay Network ...
Make sure that all commands received from other servers do have
valid prefixes.
Only exceptions are PING and ERROR commands that can occure without
prefixes when generated by the remote peer itself.
Allows to defer/queue signal processing for execution on the next
event dispatch call, i.e. we can perform any signal action in
normal, non-signal context.
Example uses:
- Reload everything on HUP without writing a global "SIGHUP_received"
variable
- Dump status of internal Lists on SIGUSR1, etc.
The WEBIRC command is used by some Web-to-IRC gateways to set the correct
user name and host name of users instead of their own.
Syntax: WEBIRC <password> <username> <hostname> <ip-address>
The <password> must be set using the new configuration variable "WebircPassword" in the [Global] section of ngircd.conf.
Please note that the <ip-address> is currently not used by ngIRCd (we don't store it in the CLIENT structure, only the resolved hostname).
This patch enables IRC Operators to use the SQUIT command as specified in
RFC 2812, section 3.1.8 "Squit".
When forwarding SQUIT commands, the server connected to the target will
drop the connection (not the target server itself!).
Please note:
- the configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" mus be enabled on the
server disconnecting the target to allow forwarding of SQUIT commands.
- if the remote server is configured to establish the connection, it
will just do this; so the disconnect is not permanent in this case!
The syntax of the CONNECT command now is:
- CONNECT <server-id>
- CONNECT <server-id> <port>
- CONNECT <server-id> <port> <target>
- CONNECT <server-id> <port> <host> <my-pwd> <peer-pwd>
- CONNECT <server-id> <port> <host> <my-pwd> <peer-pwd> <target>
Note: the configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" mus be enabled on the
target server to allow forwarding of CONNECT commands.
when ngircd is build without DEBUG enabled, LOG_DEBUG messages
are always discarded.
To avoid the extra code, ngircd has a LogDebug() wrapper which
gets removed by the compiler when compiling without DEBUG defined.
Update a few functings which were using the
Log(LOG_DEBUG, .. interface directly without #ifdef DEBUG guards.
text data bss dec hex filename
127748 1900 28280 157928 268e8 ngircd.before
126836 1896 28280 157012 26554 ngircd.after
Some servers send the numeric 020 ("please wait while we process your
connection") when a client connects. This is no useful information for
this server, so we simply ignore it :-)
This patch fixes the following error message of GCC (tested with version
4.3.0) when not compiling ngIRCd in "strict RFC" mode:
parse.c: In function "Validate_Args":
parse.c:341: error: unused parameter "Idx"
parse.c:341: error: unused parameter "Req"
Up to now ngIRCd accepted CR+LF as well as a single CR or LF in "non RFC
compliant" mode (the default). But ngIRCd became confused when it received
data containing mixed line endings (e. g. "111\r222\n333\r\n").
This patch enables ngIRCd (in "non RFC compliant" mode) to detect CR+LF,
CR, and LF as equally good line termination sequences and to always end the
command after the first one detected.
Some clients (for exmaple Trilian) are that ... broken to send such mixed
line terminations ...
First patch proposed by Scott Perry <scperry@ucsd.edu>,
Thanks to Ali Shemiran <ashemira@ucsd.edu> for testing!
If ngircd receives an input line like "COMMAND arg\nIRRELEVANT\r\n",
"arg\nIRRELEVANT" is passed as an argument to COMMAND. This can lead
to output like:
:ngircd.test.server 322 nick #chan 1 :
topicwithprecedingnewline
:ngircd.test.server 322 nick #nxtchan 1 :
[..]
Worse, this allows clients to piggyback irc commands, e.g.
"TOPIC #a :test\n:fake!~a@nonexistant JOIN :#a\r\n", which
causes the client to receive a JOIN command during /LIST output.
Bug reported by Scott Perry, first patch by Florian Westphal.
SERVICE, SERVLIST, and SQUERY are required by RFC 2812 (it states in
section 3 that "all commands described in this section MUST be implemented
by any server for this protocol." -- So we implement them without (much)
actual functionality ...
parse.c:56:9: warning: symbol 'My_Commands' was not declared. Should it be static?
parse.c:107:9: warning: symbol 'My_Numerics' was not declared. Should it be static?
Also move handling of numerics into a seperate helper function.
- New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
- Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
enable server to recognice numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
Alexander Barton