Re: [PATCH] rcirc: support TLS/SSL and arbitrary connection method

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 30 May 2011 23:46:30 +0200 Marco Pessotto <address@hidden> wrote: 

MP> I'm writing you to submit a patch for rcirc.el to give it support for
MP> SSL connections. 
...
MP> +(require 'tls)
...
MP> +   (if use-tls
MP> +       (setq process (open-tls-stream server nil server port-number))
MP> +     (setq process (open-network-stream server nil server port-number))))

Recent trunk versions of Emacs have an `open-network-stream' that
supports the built-in GnuTLS code directly.  That's much better than
`open-tls-stream'.  Could you look at that and maybe use it?

Also I sent Ryan a patch recently to add auth-source support to
rcirc.el, but haven't heard back.  I originally posted it to the
emacs-bug mailing list a few months ago and can resend it.  I haven't
applied it because I don't use rcirc.el myself.

Ted