[Toolserver-l] Two beginner questions

[Sumurai8 (DD)]

You are probably missing a PING-message whilest listening to IRC and
then closes the connection when it doesn't receive a PONG in like 180
seconds.

2010/12/9 Михајло Анђелковић <michael.angelkovich at gmail.com>:
> Long ago I have noticed that the irc server is kicking my bot out
> after some time from some reason.
>
> Then I looked closer and noticed there is a server's ping around that
> mishaps. Alright, then I just added an ad-hoc pong:
>
>        public void responsePing(String line) {
>                try {
>                        out.println("PONG :" + line.substring(line.indexOf(":")+1));
>                } catch(Throwable th) {
>                        // ...
>                }
>        }
>
> And said it to go to hell. Pure storytelling is not why I am writing
> this. I have a question. I was returning the server whatever it was
> sending to me as a ping. This is how it worked like two years ago. Has
> something changed?
>
> M
>
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