[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8570) no auth for gtk2 client

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8570 >

On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 11:52:27AM -0700, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> 
> no, but on connecting to an auth-enabled server, the client will receive a
> authentication_req packet and not know enough to send an appropriate reply.
> The server will never "establish" the connection and I suppose eventually
> will timeout the connection. You the client will connect, and see nothing
> happen. For all intents and purposes, they'll hang.

Great way to frustrate new users, scnr

But 1.14.1 clients won't be able to log into a 1.15 server anyway, right?
Will they get a proper response?

Christian

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