vickyliin / cnline

CNLine

CNLine is an instant messaging application which supports offline chat and file transfer, written in Python 3, C, Tcl/Tk and SQLite

setup

server

First, configure config.py, which contains following information

variable	meaning
USERS_DB_PATH	path of the SQLite database
PASSWORD_SALT	salt for password hashing
PORT	the port that server listen on
FILE_PORT	port for file transfer handshaking
SERVER_IP	The ip that server socket binds to

then execute

$ ./setup_sql.py

to generate the SQLite database. Also, please check the NAT and firewall settings for the environment and do the port forwarding if necessary.

client

run

$ make

this will generate the file_recv and file_send binary, which are the file transfer module called by client.

Usage

server

To start the server, execute

$ ./server.py

Press ^C to shutdown the server.

client

run

$ ./client.py