Forum OpenACS Q&A: IRCG webchat ...

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1: IRCG webchat ...
Posted by David Kuczek on 12/14/01 10:31 AM
I just stumbled over this opensource webchat module.

http://www.schumann.cx/ircg/

Anyone familiar?

Would it be hard to integrate this into an OpenACS installation?

One problem concerning integration into OpenACS might be:

"Big note up-front: IRCG depends on a special web-server; the webchat
functionality does not work with the Apache Software Foundation's
HTTP Server."

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2: Response to IRCG webchat ... (response to 1)
Posted by Jonathan Ellis on 12/14/01 05:53 PM
If you were going to use IRC, I would take the route of a normal irc server and a lightweight applet like <a href=http://www.majik3d.org/~namhas/jicra/>jicra</a> for chat.  You could hack either the server or a client to do logging & stuff.  IRCG looks like they're making things way more complicated than they need to be.

(If anyone is interested in improving jicra, let me know; I've started with some cosmetic enhancements.)