Welcome to our ft_irc 42 project

The purpose of that project is to develop an IRC server in C++98.

Table of content

1. Requirements
2. Restrictions
3. Using
4. Config

Requirements

• We must be able to authenticate, set a nickname, a username, join a channel, send and receive private messages.
• We must have operators and regular users.

Restrictions

• The server must be capable of handling multiple clients at the same time and never hang.
• Forking is not allowed.
• All I/O operations must be non-blocking. Only 1 poll() (or equivalent) can be used for handling all these operations.
• Communication between client and server has to be done via TCP/IP (v4 or v6).

How to use it

First you have to clone this repository. After that you need to run make in the repo.

Now you can launch the server with the command ./ircserv <port> <password>

• port: The port number on which your IRC server will be listening to for incoming IRC connections.
• password: The connection password. It will be needed by any IRC client that tries to connect to your server.

Configuration file

• server_name: The name you want for your server.
• server_version: The version of this code (normally 1.0)
• motd: The path for your motd file.
• host: The ip address for your server.
• max_user: The maximum number of user that can be connected at the same time to your server.
• ping: The time (in second) the server waits for inaction before ping a user.
• timeout: The time (in second) the server waits before disconnect a user after a ping if the user didn't respond pong.
• oper: Pairs of name:password for operators separated by a coma. (oper = login:pass,login:pass,...)

Credits

• majacque (https://github.com/majacque)
• jodufour (https://github.com/JonathanDUFOUR)
• fcatinau (https://github.com/Balgor18)