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[NetRider]

Hey,
I installed my own version of undernet ircu server.
In order to allow a flash chat client to connect, I had to change the end of line character from \n to \0
It now looks like:
mb->msg[mb->length++] = '\r'; /* add \r\n to buffer */
mb->msg[mb->length++] = '\0';
mb->msg[mb->length++] = '\n';
mb->msg[mb->length] = '\0'; /* not strictly necessary */

The bold line was added by me, and now mirc works fine, and the flash client works fine. but eggdrop has problems.

I enabled raw log in eggdrop, and saw that eggdrop receive all data, it can see a user joining, parting and also joins its own channels.

But it still shows its not on a channel. also it doesnt react on any text sent from the server. no modes, no join parts and so on.

Could someone help me modify eggdrop to react on these, or maybe a fix to the server code I submitted, so it can allow both flash clients and eggdrop.

thanks

[Galadhrim]

i would say that the fault is in the Flash client rather than the IRCu code, since mIRC and eggdrop both work with the original code.

I don't see how your code adds anything as the \r\n is meant to be together rather than separated. \r is a carriage return and \n new line. Separating these will work under Windows but not under Linux I guess. Seeing as the snippit you gave already had a line with \0 in it I cannot see how the first \0 works.

[De Kus]

okay my guess:
if I correctly remeber my programming times, \0 indicates the end of a string. Sooo, lets see, your buffer ending will look like:
0D 00 0A 00

however, for eggdrop the end of a line is 0A, but the bot will stop phrasing the string at the first 00... its the end of the string !!! so it will never phrase 0A (\n) so it never sees the EOL and probably just discards the string .
solution: remove the first 00 again. try to remove the 0D instead, mIRC should even work with 0A line ends. Or try to add a double 00 at the end or switch 0D and 0A in your orignal version. Meaning try these:

\r \n \0 (maybe it was something else, verification makes wise)
\n \0
\n \0 \r \0
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[Galadhrim]

\0 means null in a string often used to make sure that memory space is really empty.

[De Kus]

[Galadhrim]

strange book... I learned that \0 is not needed but can prevent certain unwanted "features".

[arcane]

hm.. maybe not for strings with fixed length, but it is definitely needed for strings with varying length.
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[Sir_Fz]

If you have an array of 20 elements (char string), this array can take for example 19 characters and the last element would be \0 (but you don't need to put it). So if you want to check the end of the string you can check if it's equal to \0.
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[arcane]

yes, but

[NetRider]

Thanks for the help guys.

I found it would be easier to write a simle proxy in perl, which would just remove the \0 from the string sent by the server, rather than experimenting with the eggdrop code.

[demond]

from RFC1459 (Internet Relay Chat protocol):