Re: Chat servers

[Rico -mc- Gloeckner <mc@ukeer.de>]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 08:52:30PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote:
> Thanks to all for all the suggestions. Does anyone know of a client or
> server implementation for irc or jabber that could be embedded into an
> html webpage, thus allowing users to login and chat w/o having to
> install additional software? I'm not currently aware of any, which is
> the reason I was looking at something along the lines of what

For IRC there are two ways to embed Chat into a Homepage.
Which one you use depends on three Factors:
 - Your Users are behind Firewalls: Yes/No
 - You run your own IRC Server: Yes/No
 - The Box which runs the HTML-embedded Client is weak: Yes/No

The First one, preferred if your Users do NOT run behind Firewalls, you
have to use use foreign IRC Servers and if your Webserver is
weak is Javachat; the User downloads a small Applet and connects
directly to the IRC Server. He shows up on IRC with his own IP.

The Second one, preferred if your User DO run behind Firewalls, You use
your own administered IRC Server and your Webserver is NOT weak is
something like CGI::IRC. That means, the User connects to a CGI, which
connects to the IRC Server. The User appears on IRC with the IP of your
Webserver. Drawback to this is that most IRC Networks forbid more then
a certain amount of connections from one IP, so you had to ask Admins of
that Server to raise that Limits.

For both Solutions there should be a certain Amount of Programs already
visible on Freshmeat.


hth,
	-mc

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