Document the InspIRCd server-to-server protocol

[sadiepowell]

We currently do not have any documentation for the InspIRCd server to server protocol. I am working on this but it is taking a while so this is a tracking issue to monitor the progress on it.

[LizzyTrickster]

Hi,

Has there been any progress on this?
I'm currently having to use the old 1.2 protocol docs (found via the webarchive snapshot from 2013 of the InspIRCd wiki) but it's not up to date for InspIRCd v3 so stuff like the IJOIN command, extra timestamps in a few places and the extra number on the end of UUIDs in the FJOIN command (yo,123AAAAAA:2) are not documented at all, which is annoying to work around as my code fails to parse the message and quits.

[sadiepowell]

Unfortunately this is a lot of work and is low priority vs other tasks so it hasn't been done yet.

[sadiepowell]

I've finally got around to working on this!

https://docs.inspircd.org/server/

Currently documented is:

• Protocol between 1202 (v2) and 1205 (v3).
• Some basic terminology that is needed for implementing the server protocol.
• Basic documentation for what S2S messages exist.
• Example protocol traffic for connecting to a server.
• Protocol changes between 1205 (v3) and 1206 (v4)

Still to do is:

• In-depth documentation of the semantics of how to use S2S messages.