POE::Component::IRC::Cookbook::Disconnecting(3p)

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 Oern Sigurd`sson.