[dcc2] SIDs and connections to self.

[Szymon Stefanek]

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On Saturday 26 June 2004 11:38, myndzi wrote:
> I ran into this annoying little ambiguity while working on
> implementing DCC2 stuff.
>
> It makes sense to keep a single consolidated list of nick,sid pairs so
> that you do not end up with two different connections (one initiated
> by you, and one by them) with the same SID. However when you do this,
> sending DCC2 requests to yourself becomes troublesome -- obviously the
> nick and SID will be the same.

Yes, this looks really as a special case. The cleanest way I can think of to
handle it is to use a message counter (MID=<count>) token.
In this way you are always able to detect if an incoming message is odd or
even in a negotiation.

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Szymon Stefanek

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