ident(n)                Identification protocol client                ident(n)



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NAME
       ident - Ident protocol client

SYNOPSIS
       package require Tcl  8.3

       package require ident  ?0.42?

       ::ident::query socket ?callback?

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DESCRIPTION
       The ident package provides a client implementation of the ident
       protocol as defined in RFC 1413 (http://www.rfc-
       editor.org/rfc/rfc1413.txt).

       ::ident::query socket ?callback?
              This command queries the ident daemon on the remote side of the
              given socket, and returns the result of the query as a
              dictionary.  Interpreting the dictionary as list the first key
              will always be resp-type, and can have one of the values USERID,
              ERROR, and FATAL.  These response types have the following
              meanings:

              USERID This indicates a successful response. Two more keys and
                     associated values are returned, opsys, and user-id.

              ERROR  This means the ident server has returned an error.  A
                     second key named error is present whose value contains
                     the error-type field from the server response.

              FATAL  Fatal errors happen when no ident server is listening on
                     the remote side, or when the ident server gives a
                     response that does not conform to the RFC. A detailed
                     error message is returned under the error key.

BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
       This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain
       bugs and other problems.  Please report such in the category ident of
       the Tcllib SF Trackers
       [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883].  Please also report
       any ideas for enhancements you may have for either package and/or
       documentation.

KEYWORDS
       ident, identification, rfc 1413

CATEGORY
       Networking

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2004 Reinhard Max <max@tclers.tk>




ident                                0.42                             ident(n)
