Sumurai8 (DD) wrote:
Well... you can actually send every 3 minutes a PONG-message without listening to the IRC-channel and the server will gladly accept that ^_^ . That's what I did at the time I didn't know about the timeout-option of a socket :) But most of the time it is just better to follow the rules and end each line with \r\n (nice, didn't know about that, so changed it in my script :) ), send a PONG-msg followed by everything that was send after the PING-message, etc, etc.
Some ircds will, with every right to do so, not complete your login into the network in that case. Strangely, I don't see that kind of protection in freenode's ircd-seven despite being alledgedly protected from the javascript spam that plagued the last days of hyperion[1].