[Prev][Next][Index]

general purpose cleint - anyone wants?




sometime back (in the glorious army days) i wanted to write my own 
"irc-like" server/client. i ended up with some pathetic "clone" of the 
irc client/server system (don't laugh, it does work nice). the only 
"interesting" idea i involved in its development, was making the grammar 
or the protocol defined in an external file. this makes it very easy to 
modify the configuration file so the client will be able to talk to 
different ASCII-based servers. Since it has some simple line-editting and 
command line history too, i realized it can be used as a nice tool to 
debug new ASCII servers - just edit the protocol files, and it'll talk to 
SMTP servers, irc servers, NNTP servers (well, maybe not NNTP, since it's 
not sophisticated enough), or other servers people create every now and then.

if anyone is interested, i'd make the source available. anyone has a good 
use to such a thing ? perhaps ideas how it could be further developed 
into a usefull tool ?

guy