Chghost & {}[] in Unreal 3.2.3

dotslasher · Post by **dotslasher** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:22 pm

I noticed that you cant use {}[] with the cmds chghost and sethost anymore, why is that?

w00t · Post by **w00t** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:37 pm

I would take a stab in the dark and assume because they aren't valid host characters, I may be wrong.

Dukat · Post by **Dukat** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:51 pm

Yeah, I never saw a domain using any of these characters...
Were they really supported?
In what version?

w00t · Post by **w00t** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:54 pm

I wouldn't know, never tried to use them

dotslasher · Post by **dotslasher** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:58 pm

i might be wrong but i believe it was supported on Unreal 3.2.2 (not sure though) because i had an anope module that auto sets a vhost to Nick.Users.Mynetwork.Com and after i upgraded to 3.2.3 it stopped settings vhosts for people with {} or [] in their nicks. so i did the test with /chghost and it came up with: *** /ChgHost Error: A hostname may contain a-z, A-Z, 0-9, '-' & '.' - Please only use them

but i remember i could use {} before

i wonder why other ircds like ircu, nefarious support {}[] etc and others dont.

wouldnt it be better if all or none used this? i can see why they wouldnt be supported since they arent supported by the rfc

codemastr · Post by **codemastr** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:39 pm

{} and [] were supported because of a bug (the same reason ircu supports them). It was old code that, because of RFC1459, considered {} and [] to be "letters" therefore, the "is it a letter?" test succeeded. However, we have since fixed that bug. {} and [] are illegal in hostnames.

dotslasher · Post by **dotslasher** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:31 pm

ok tnx for the info codemastr