From a133293c18bfb79b5e01b153d2cd0fa8692114b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:34:32 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid a portability problem.

---
 irkerd | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/irkerd b/irkerd
index 23038af..2aefe14 100755
--- a/irkerd
+++ b/irkerd
@@ -282,6 +282,8 @@ class Connection:
 class Target():
     "Represent a transmission target."
     def __init__(self, url):
+        # Pre-2.6 Pythons don't recognize irc: as a valid URL prefix.
+        url = url.replace("irc://", "http://")
         parsed = urlparse.urlparse(url)
         irchost, _, ircport = parsed.netloc.partition(':')
         if not ircport:
-- 
2.26.2