gulaschkanone
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Now that the bug that allowed one to throw arbitrary messages into chat is fixed (and I couldn't find a trivial way to circumvent the fix), may I humbly request some more chat-related functions to replace the, in my opinion, reasonable usages for that capability?
1. boolean [string] who_channel(string)
Before, I could throw "/<chan> /who" at the server and quite easily parse the names out of the response. There are a bunch of functions that sorta-kinda allow you to throw /who at chat, like void chat_macro(string), but those seem all to have no return value (as well as some blocking after you mistype and make it fire a message into chat >_>) The exploit no longer working breaks a script I wrote for a clannie who placed a bounty on it, so I'd hate that to no longer work. Since there is already "boolean [string] who_clan( )", I'd assume implementation of this to be trivial. Use case for this'd be doing wacky stuff like throwing warbear procedural hilarity drones at the inhabitants of a channel, which is what another clannie's script does.
2. void chat_talkie(string)
I also used this exploit for logging fun and interesting (for certain definitions of those words) statistics about my Weirdeaux combats into a talkie channel. Since talkie chans are, for all intents and purposes, private, sending messages into those shouldn't be any more abusable than chat_clan is. Similiar to above, implementation would seem like no big trouble to the casual observer. That's me.
1. boolean [string] who_channel(string)
Before, I could throw "/<chan> /who" at the server and quite easily parse the names out of the response. There are a bunch of functions that sorta-kinda allow you to throw /who at chat, like void chat_macro(string), but those seem all to have no return value (as well as some blocking after you mistype and make it fire a message into chat >_>) The exploit no longer working breaks a script I wrote for a clannie who placed a bounty on it, so I'd hate that to no longer work. Since there is already "boolean [string] who_clan( )", I'd assume implementation of this to be trivial. Use case for this'd be doing wacky stuff like throwing warbear procedural hilarity drones at the inhabitants of a channel, which is what another clannie's script does.
2. void chat_talkie(string)
I also used this exploit for logging fun and interesting (for certain definitions of those words) statistics about my Weirdeaux combats into a talkie channel. Since talkie chans are, for all intents and purposes, private, sending messages into those shouldn't be any more abusable than chat_clan is. Similiar to above, implementation would seem like no big trouble to the casual observer. That's me.
