First of all I'd like to thank the original poster for not referring to the Internet
Relay Chat service as 'mIRC' - Nice to know that some people still recognise
that IRC is an open protocol that predates the popular windows app. I still
shudder everytime someone asks about 'mIRC servers' ;)
mrBob, on Dec 6 2003, 07:08 PM, said:
winmgnt.exe usually is the hacked serv-u ftp server
so actually he has full control over your pc cuz he can upload/download and execute ANY file
and /ctcp [nick] PING means that you we're requesting a file from that nickname..
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. The common command
/CTCP {nickname} PING|FINGER|VERSION|TIME|USERINFO|CLIENTINFO
is a well known IRC command despite not being documented in RFC1459.
I suggest you read the CTCP (Client to Client Protocol) specification which
will help clarify what these /CTCP messages mean, and how they are used.
To send these CTCP messages we (Or our IRC client) simply quotes them
into standard RFC1459 PRIVMSG's.
Heres what the CTCP specification says about its 'PING' messages:
Taken from CTCP documentation said:
PING
====
Ping is used to measure the time delay between clients on the IRC
network. A ping query is encoded in a privmsg, and has the form:
\001PING timestamp\001
where `timestamp' is the current time encoded in any form the querying
client finds convienent. The replying client sends back an identical
message inside a notice:
\001PING timestamp\001
The querying client can then subtract the recieved timestamp from the
current time to obtain the delay between clients over the IRC network.
To say that this 'means you we're requesting a file from' the user involved
doesn't make any kind of sense to me. Would you care to elaborate on
what you meant by this ?
Perhaps if you read
RFC 1459 and the
CTCP Spec it may remind you :rolleyes:
C'mon people - lets try to be accurate.
S.G.