sending messages over winsock for irc ident

Question

I'm just began writing an IRC bot and I'm having some problems sending the ident, here is part of my code that i'm having the issue with:

   $nick = "bot1818"
   $writer.AutoFlush = $true
   $writer.NewLine   = $true
   $writer.WriteLine("USER $nick 0 * :$nick bot")

I'm getting a ":morgan.freenode.net NOTICE * :*** No Ident response" shortly after that i'm disconnected.

`$stream = $socket.GetStream()` `$writer = new-object System.IO.StreamWriter $stream` — sean, Dec 12 '14 at 16:27

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 07 '21 at 13:31

You're not registering the connection properly.

You need to send a NICK message as well as the USER message, so somthing like this:

$writer.WriteLine("NICK $nick")

Don't worry about the "No Ident response", it's an ancient technology and is not needed to connect to most IRC networks these days, and wouldn't be provided by Windows systems anyway.

I recommend you have a read of RFC1459 - it will tell you everything you need to know about the IRC protocol.

sending messages over winsock for irc ident

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