Feature request: IRC SASL authentication in telepathy-idle
Submitted by Mantas Mikulėnas
Assigned to Telepathy bugs list
Description
Popular IRC daemons (Charybdis, UnrealIRCd, Inspircd) now support SASL authentication with the IRC services (NickServ). This provides several advantages over server-password and the old "PRIVMSG NickServ :IDENTIFY" hack; in particular:
- no race conditions (such as joining channels before identifying)
- clear indication of successful or failed authentication.
It would be nice to have this supported by Telepathy & Empathy, at least with the standard PLAIN and EXTERNAL algorithms.
IRC capabilities extension ('CAP'): http://www.leeh.co.uk/draft-mitchell-irc-capabilities-02.html
IRC SASL authentication ('sasl' capability): http://git.atheme.org/charybdis/tree/doc/sasl.txt