irc connection with ssl

kelscat18 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all I will admit i am a complete newb when it comes to ssl topics let alone being a perl novice! but I'm in need of writing a small basic irc bot that will connect to a server that only allows ssl connections, all the bot needs to do is call a subroutine that will send a message to the channel every couple seconds. I've looked at Net::IRC and other libs that support ssl but it's all way over my head.. writing a bot without ssl support using sockets is no problem. I'm using windows 7 if that helps. Sorry If i'm asking to much of you, been ripping my hair out all day over this! :/ thanks.

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Re: irc connection with ssl by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 06, 2013 at 13:36 UTC
I didn't find an easy way to take an existing IRC client and just swap out its connection routine. Your two approaches would be to either use an existing client and find out how to make its socket connection speak SSL. For example the `connect` method in AnyEvent::IRC::Connection should be all that's needed to make AnyEvent::IRC speak SSL. The other approach would be to write your own irc client, using for example Parse::IRC. If you go this route, swapping out the transport layer is even easier, at the cost of actually having to implement an IRC client.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: irc connection with ssl by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 06, 2013 at 16:33 UTC
POE::Component::IRC supports SSL with the `UseSSL => 1` option passed to `spawn`. It requires POE::Component::SSLify to be installed. Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed	[reply] [d/l] [select]