add URI parser for options

[cbm80]

On the command-line add an option to specify an URI instead of individual options, ie.

direct connection:

irc://irc.example.com:6668/?chan=chan1,chan2&nick=xdccbot&pack=1234

transparent proxy:

proxy://user:password@irc.myproxy.com:7777/?chan=chan1,chan2&nick=xdccbot&pack=1234

znc-proxy with auto-connect and TLS:

znc://user:password@irc.myproxy.com:7777/?chan=chan1,chan2&nick=xdccbot&pack=1234&tls=true

Perhaps even add an option to put URIs into a config-file and reference them by alias, ie.

supernetwork="irc://irc.example.com:6668/?chan=chan1,chan2"

So it can be used like: xdcc supernetwork xdccbot 1234

[JanGe]

Thanks again for your suggestions @cbm80!

Are irc://, proxy:// and znc:// with parameters used (or even specified) some where already?

I recently came across this format used by 4xdcc.info:

xdcc://{network-name}/{hostname}/{#channel}/{xdccbot}/#{pack}/{filename}/msg {xdccbot} xdcc send

XDCC-Grabscher uses a similiar format with hostname and network-name swapped and without the message part:

xdcc://{hostname}/{network-name}/{#channel}/{xdccbot}/#{pack}/{filename}

IMHO it would be best to support xdcc:// with all options and irc:///ircs:// without bot/pack options as commonly used.

[cbm80]

Are irc://, proxy:// and znc:// with parameters used (or even specified) some where already?

Probably not, I just made them up :) The closest thing to an agreed upon standard for IRC URIs seems to be an old draft from 1997 for an RFC that was never approved:

http://www.w3.org/Addressing/draft-mirashi-url-irc-01.txt

This is at least what mIRC uses. There's no 'standard' for XDCC URIs that I know of.

[Freedos]

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source of the "original" xdcc link format
http://xdccklipper.sourceforge.net/

4xdcc.info still uses the same search spiders.

Lars somehow switched {hostname} and {network-name} for XDCC-Grabscher. It was ment to be like in IRC-Klipper. If I remember correctly '/msg {xdccbot} xdcc send' was never part of the protocol. But I'm not sure about that.

Hoffe das hilft.