Version:           1.3.12 (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

If there is a colon in a server password, ksirc will not parse that correctly and will fail to connect. The fairly trivial patch below fixes this.

I can see no real reason why colons in passwords should not be allowed. AFAICT, when the connect string is parsed, just interpreting the password as "anything after the second colon" should be OK.

--- kdenetwork-3.5.5/ksirc/dsirc.orig   2007-08-19 20:26:45.000000000 +0200
+++ kdenetwork-3.5.5/ksirc/dsirc        2007-08-19 20:26:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -114,8 +114,8 @@
 $nick=$opt_n || $ARGV[0] || $ENV{"SIRCNICK"} || $ENV{"IRCNICK"} || $username;
 $set{"FINGER"}=$ENV{"IRCFINGER"} || "keep your fingers to yourself";
 $set{"USERINFO"}=$ENV{"USERINFO"} || "yep, I'm a user";
-if ($server =~ /^\[([^\]]+)\]:([0-9]*):?([^:]*)$/
-    or $server =~ /^([^:]+):([0-9]*):?([^:]*)$/)
+if ($server =~ /^\[([^\]]+)\]:([0-9]*):?(.*)$/
+    or $server =~ /^([^:]+):([0-9]*):?(.*)$/)
 {
        ($server, $port, $pass)=($1, $2, $3);
 }