Failing to connect, please help

[dmitriz]

Description
A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

I have been trying to follow all the instructions as exactly as I could but somehow still fail to connect.

I am using XChat Azure 1.16.1 (1.16.1) downloaded from
https://github.com/xchataqua/downloads

Steps to reproduce
Following https://github.com/adsr/irslackd#setup, Step 6, I enter in the XChat Azure CLI:

Enter /server add irslackd_workspace localhost/6697
Resp: Looking up add. Unknown host. Maybe you misspelled it?

Other tries, no success :

Enter /server
Resp: Usage: SERVER [-ssl] <host> [<port>] [<password>], connects to a server, the default port is 6667 for normal connections, and 9999 for ssl connections

Enter /server localhost 6697
Resp:

Looking up localhost
 * Connecting to localhost (::1) port 6697...
 * Connected. Now logging in...
 * Disconnected (Remote host closed socket).

Enter /server -ssl localhost 6697
Resp:

Looking up localhost
 * Connecting to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 6697...
 * Connection failed. Error: (336151568) error:14094410:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure

Expected behavior
Connect or getting more helpful error messages

Log output
No output in the terminal console where irslackd is running.

Client setup

• IRC client and version: XChat Azure 1.16.1 (1.16.1)
• IRC bouncer and version (if any): No
• OS: Mac OSX 10.8.5

[adsr]

Thanks for the report @dmitriz. I don't have a Mac to test that client unfortunately. However I can offer a few tips.

1. Is there any output from irslackd itself?

2. It looks like there was a TLS error. You might try running irslackd with the -i flag to disable TLS and then using /server without -ssl.

3. Going by your client's help output for /server, you might try /server localhost <port> <slack-token>.

[dmitriz]

It looks like there was a TLS error. You might try running irslackd with the -i flag to disable TLS and then using /server without -ssl.

I have enventually managed to connect with -i flag, thank you for the hint!

What I still cannot do is entering threads or private channels, appreciate any suggestion where to look for more info here.

[adsr]

Hello @dmitriz Can you file a separate bug report if this is still not working for you? Thank you.