NAME

POE::Component::IRC::Cookbook::Disconnecting - How to disconnect gracefully with PoCo-IRC

SYNOPSIS

Shutting down an IRC bot can be quick and messy, or slow and graceful.

DESCRIPTION

There are two ways you can shut down an IRC bot/client. The quick and dirty way is rather simple:

 exit;

It exits the program, shutting down the socket, and everybody online sees yet another "Connection reset by peer" or "Remote end closed the socket" or something.

There's a little dance you can do to send a quit message and log out gracefully. It goes like this:

• Send the QUIT command to the IRC server, with your quit message.
• Wait for irc_disconnected to come back.
• Unregister all events. This is like the register => 'all' you probably posted near the connect command, but replace register with unregister. Once POE::Component::IRC knows your session isn't interested, it lets you go and things shut down.

AUTHOR

Rocco Caputo (I think). PODified by Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson.