From 0a6b673b14efc4f623ea445045e6fc60e9842a25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florent Le Coz Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 17:01:17 +0200 Subject: Support raw IRC messages Messages received on an IRC server JID are forwarded as raw IRC messages. fix #2486 --- doc/biboumi.1.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/biboumi.1.md b/doc/biboumi.1.md index b69dede..faa9618 100644 --- a/doc/biboumi.1.md +++ b/doc/biboumi.1.md @@ -357,6 +357,20 @@ Biboumi supports a few ad-hoc commands, as described in the XEP 0050. “Gateway shutdown” quit message, except that biboumi does not exit when using this ad-hoc command. +### Raw IRC messages + +Biboumi tries to support as many IRC features as possible, but doesn’t +handle everything yet (or ever). In order to let the user send any +arbitrary IRC message, biboumi forwards any XMPP message received on an IRC +Server JID (see *ADDRESSING*) as a raw command to that IRC server. + +For example, to WHOIS the user Foo on the server irc.example.com, a user can +send the message “WHOIS Foo” to “irc.example.com@biboumi.example.com”. + +The message will be forwarded as is, without any modification appart from +adding "\r\n" at the end (to make it a valid IRC message). You need to have +a little bit of understanding of the IRC protocol to use this feature. + SECURITY -------- -- cgit v1.2.3