A message transfer protocol that uses all clients as relays
Piper is a client-as-server network, similar to p2p, But all clients in the network are also relay servers.
This is similar to the IRC protocol. But Piper doesn't require a central server. Instead, all messages are transferred from one client to another. When a message is repeated multiple times (default 3 times). The relay server will stop repeating it any longer.
{
"operation": "msg",
"msg": "",
"name": "",
"uuid": "",
"jump": 0,
"port": 0
}
operation
tells relay servers what wo do with this message.
Use msg
when sending messages.
msg
is the body of the message.
name
and uuid
include information of the sender. uuid
is a random version 4 uuid.
jump
shows how many times this message has been repeated.
port
shows the port of the relay server which send this message to you.
Use Piper --help
to print help message
Usage: Piper [options] [ARGS]
Options:
-s, --server <string> Remote server address split addresses with `;`
-h, --host <int> Local server port default: 28174
-n, --name <string> Username default: user-0
-u, --uuid <string> UUID(You should not change this by default) default: <random v4 uuid>