[Bug 48380] New: Feature request: IRC SASL authentication in telepathy-idle

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48380

             Bug #: 48380
           Summary: Feature request: IRC SASL authentication in
                    telepathy-idle
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: medium
         Component: idle
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: grawity at gmail.com
         QAContact: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org


Popular IRC daemons (Charybdis, UnrealIRCd, Inspircd) now support SASL
authentication with the IRC services (NickServ). This provides several
advantages over server-password and the old "PRIVMSG NickServ :IDENTIFY" hack;
in particular:

 * no race conditions (such as joining channels before identifying)
 * clear indication of successful or failed authentication.

It would be nice to have this supported by Telepathy & Empathy, at least with
the standard PLAIN and EXTERNAL algorithms.

IRC capabilities extension ('CAP'):
    http://www.leeh.co.uk/draft-mitchell-irc-capabilities-02.html

IRC SASL authentication ('sasl' capability):
    http://git.atheme.org/charybdis/tree/doc/sasl.txt

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