Re: [OpenVerse] /nick .

[Cruise <cruise@openverse.org>]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> For no good reason at all, I typed "/nick ." in OpenVerse.  It disconnected
> me, claiming the name was taken.
> 
> First, who's named "."?
> 
> Second, why disconnect me?  It would be cleaner to refuse the name change. 
> Is this possible to do?

The "." name will crash OV clients. You cannot set a variable to "." cause "."
is the program's window and is also a seperator for multiple dimension
array variables. (EX this_var(dim_a.dim_b.dim_c) is a three dimensional array)
maybe it's a bug in tcl but to fix I disconnect any user tying to change his
name to this. I should put code in the client to not allow it to ever be sent
to the server. Other blocked names are * .. and " ".
 
ALSO.....

The client will be disconnected if it tries to change to a name already in use.
This is because the client is expected to keep track of names and should not
ever send a request to use a name already in use. The logic was, the user was
just fucking around trying to break things and why bother with such users. The
TCL OV client will not allow you to change your name to one already in use, if
you mod it.. the server will disconnect you. Simple solution, don't try to do
it.

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