POE::C...ecting(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

POE::Component::IRC::Cookbook::Disconnecting — it's literally the how-to for disconnecting gracefully with PoCo-IRC 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

okay so bestie, shutting down an IRC bot? it can be quick and messy, or it can be slow and graceful. pick your fighter.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So. There are two ways you can shut down an IRC bot/client, and ngl they are on completely different vibes.

The quick and dirty way is, like, embarrassingly simple:

exit;

That's it. It exits the program, shuts down the socket, and everybody online just sees yet another "Connection reset by peer" or "Remote end closed the socket" or something equally 😭. no goodbye, no closure, just poof. it's giving ghosting.

Now, as of version 6.50, all you need to do in order to shut down gracefully is send a "shutdown" event to the IRC component. That's the whole assignment bestie 🫶

Here's what it does for you:

• it makes sure your quit message (if you even have one) actually gets delivered ✨
• it will forcibly disconnect if there are any problems — like a faulty server or network issues, the chaotic kind 🚩
• and after all that, it unregisters all sessions and cleans up after itself, like a true icon 👑

if you're feeling extra and want to do something more elaborate on your own, go look at the following documentation: logged in, "connected", "quit", "disconnect", and "unregister". iykyk 💅

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Rocco Caputo and Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson. legends fr fr 🌟

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-08-21, and it ate. no cap. periodt 💖🎀🦋