HaniaKhater / ft_irc

ft_irc

IRC stands for Internet Chat Relay.Our project is creating our own IRC server acessible by an actual IRC client. Internet is ruled by solid standards protocols that allow connected computers to interact with each other. Let's discover this.

HexChat

We chose HexChat as our reference client because it has both a Graphical User Interface and a Text User Interface.

Here is the setup process (for example, address=localhost and port=6667):

Here is an example of using our irc server:

Here is an example of my bot:

Subject

We musn't develop a client nor handle server-to-server communication and use C++98.

• Our executable should run as follows : ./ircserv <port> <password>.
• Communication between client(s) and server should be done via TCP/IP (v4 or/and v6).
• The server should be able to handle multiple clients at the same time and never hang.
• Forking isn't allowed. We should take advantage of the poll() function and all it's particularities and ressource usage advantages. And we should use poll() only and strictly once.
• We should be able to authenticate ()
• The server should forward messages to the suitable targets (channel members, private message target, ...).
• Our server should withstand absolutly every possible error :
  • Low Bandwith.
  • Network congestion.
  • Receiving partial data.
  • Memory exhaustion.
  • ...
• As using our server should ressemble using any traditionnal and official IRC server we have to implement the standard roles and commands :
  • [Roles] At least Operators and Regular Users.
  • [Commands] At least KICK, INVITE, TOPIC, MODE (-t, -i, -k, -o, -l), PRIVMSG, JOIN, NICK, PASS ...

Subject : bonus

• Implement a Bot.
• Handle file transfers.

Installation

You'll need make and clang (c++ compiler)

sudo apt update && sudo apt install make && sudo apt install clang

or

sudo apt update && sudo apt install make && sudo apt install build-essential

Then simply write make in your console while being at the root of our repository to compile the program and launch it as indicated above.