irc extension

[marnanel]

Thought from last night: If IRC had a protocol extension meaning "if the client disconnects without warning, do nothing for n seconds, and if a later connection authenticates as the same client within that time, pick up the session seamlessly", it would make using IRC from mobile devices much easier and obviate much of the need for running bouncers. I may look at the source of dancer and see whether that would be possible. What do you think?

Comments

[aredridel]

It's a very good idea. It would have to know about the outstanding TCP buffer, and might retransmit a message you've already seen when you reconnect. But it's possible.

It'd need to buffer the sent-but-pending-receipt packets in a way it can retransmit at the application layer rather than handing it off to the OS blindly.