diff --git a/auth.py b/auth.py
index e42ac51..0bc1b39 100644
--- a/auth.py
+++ b/auth.py
@@ -22,5 +22,25 @@ def login():
         res,code = 'ERROR', 401
     return make_response(res, code, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' })
 
+@app.route('/irc', methods=['GET'])
+def irc_form():
+    return render_template('irc.html')
+
+@app.route('/irc', methods=['POST'])
+def irc_nick():
+    conn = ldap.initialize(app.config['LDAP_URL'])
+    conn.start_tls_s()
+    login,code = '', 401
+    try:
+        res = conn.search_s(app.config['IRC_BASEDN'], ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, 
+                app.config['IRC_LDAP_FILTER'] % request.form['nick'])
+        if len(res) == 1:
+            login = res[0][1]['uid'][0]
+            code = 200
+    except ldap.LDAPError as e:
+        print e
+        code = 500
+    return make_response(login, code, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' })
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     app.run('0.0.0.0', 8082, debug=True)
diff --git a/templates/irc.html b/templates/irc.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1fc2f13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/irc.html
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+<form action="" method="POST">
+  <label for="nick">Freenode account<input type="text" name="nick"/></label>
+  <input type="submit" value="send"/>
+</form>