What you want to do for this is create a whole new session, giving that session all the required state information. From that session's _start state, call $kernel->post('irc', 'whois', $nick), and then capture the output in irc_319() and process it accordingly.

This is (I think) the only safe way to do it because another command could come in while you're waiting for the whois command to come back, and so you'd get concurrency bugs.

Let me know if you want to see some code, because this is a great example for my POE tutorial that I'm going to give at The Perl Conf this year.

In reply to Re: Capturing queries in POE::Component::IRC by Matts
in thread Capturing queries in POE::Component::IRC by rendler

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