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Yet another note-to-self post, but these links are confusing, how do you make proper irc:// or ircs:// link?
I started wondering about the proper way to make irc/ircs links today and based on the following addresses
- https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/ircs
- https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-butcher-irc-url-04
I decide that the correct form which I will use is
ircs://irc.example.org:6697/#channel,##channel,!channel.
EDIT 2015-08-30: I haven’t had issues with this, but apparently this
isn’t the proper way
(https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-butcher-irc-url-04) and the address
would become
ircs://irc.example.org:6697/%23channel%2C%23%23channel%2C%21channel.
See Percent-encoding
at Wikipedia. Thanks Mardeg at irc.mozilla.org.
- specifies that the link uses SSL with the s (for plain text just remove it)
- specifies the port so client doesn’t have to guess it
- clearly specifies the channels without leaving prefixes for the client to guess
The previously linked pages also contain other forms, but this seems the best to me and I am against using channel keys as there are better ways to keep channel private (such as restricted or +i and +I to authorized people) and server passwords aren’t used anywhere where I would encounter them, other than forwarding the password to NickServ, but that is depracted by SASL.