Coding a client

grimpirate · none Joined: 18 Aug 2006 Posts: 7

Well I'm not exactly coding a full IRC client. It's actually a bot/client. The purpose of it is to emulate the FServe functions of mIRCs SysReset script, with a couple of enhancements and removal of things that I found unnecessary. It's almost near completion. I like to use HydraIRC but was disappointed to find that the particular well recognized FServe format that appears when you type !list in a channel is uniquely due to mIRC. Therefore, I took it upon myself to write this bot/client which would emulate FServe so that it could be used independent of whatever client you use to chat in IRC. I was hoping some of the forum users might suggest some features which you think might be useful for a file sharing bot/client. Here's a brief list of the features that it already supports:

!list command.
@find command.
@md5 command: finds files based on their md5 hash code.
Bot can be set to away.
Updates files that it's serving dynamically, so there's no need to restart the bot if files are added.
If a user leaves the channel, changes its nick, or quits while engaged in a DCC with the bot, the user's queues, chat, and sends are terminated.

The current limitations that haven't been fixed:

No upload speed limit for the bot
Cannot resume file transfers

So please feel free to suggest more things for the bot which would be useful in terms of file sharing. I don't really feel that keeping track of statistical things like how many bytes have been transferred during the bot's operation or stuff like that is of any importance, but feel free to state otherwise. ^_^ Thx for any suggestions.

FBI · Posted: Aug 20, 2006 7:43pm Post subject:

Umm this is a file sharing client right?

Theres plenty of ones out there already but they are infected with viruses and stuff...

grimpirate · none Joined: 18 Aug 2006 Posts: 7

Well, FBI, I don't know exactly what you mean by lots of them are infected with viruses. I'm coding it, and I'm not coding any viruses/adware/spyware into it. Now if people choose to share files that have been affected by viruses that could be a problem. However, that's precisely why I've included an md5 feature (apart from finding the exact file you want) into the program. To see if a file has been changed, and therefore is not the file you want.