Here's the auth mechanism the parent is referring to: https://www.quakenet.org/development/challengeauth https://www.quakenet.org/development/challengeauth mIR

Here's the auth mechanism the parent is referring to: https://www.quakenet.org/development/challengeauth https://www.quakenet.org/development/challengeauth mIRC and irssi can handle it through scripts. Contrast SASL, which is supported in every client I've used: https://freenode.net/sasl/ https://freenode.net/sasl/