Bug 71094

Summary:	Telepathy idle is not handling nicknames with * in them correctly
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Andrea Veri <andrea.veri>
Component:	idle	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Andrea Veri 2013-10-31 14:59:32 UTC

I was trying today to manage my ZNC bouncer through the command '/msg *status listmods' but seems telepathy is not able to handle it properly, the relevant error I get is:

Failed to ensure channel: TelepathyGLib.Error: invalid nickname

So, unfortunately, I'm not able to manage my ZNC bouncer at all given *status being the relevant user to query for updating / changing / retrieving details on the bouncer itself.

Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2013-10-31 15:43:38 UTC

I suspect telepathy-idle is applying the RFC's nickname rules strictly, whereas your bouncer is deliberately using an invalid nick to ensure that it doesn't collide with real nicknames on a real IRC network. We had the same problem with bip's "-bip" pseudo-user.

Comment 2 Simon McVittie 2013-10-31 15:44:17 UTC

(The solution was to expand Idle's "is a valid nick?" regex to consider "-" to be OK; it might need "*" too.)

Comment 3 GitLab Migration User 2019-12-03 20:10:23 UTC

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