Howdy Bo: > I believe IRC uses UDP which should be fully supported very soon. Actually, IRC uses TCP/IP, as indicated in the rfc: http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/rfc/ This rfc lays out what we need to do to implement IRC in REBOL. Which reminds me... if people are interested in building this protocol as well as things like xml-rpc, you'll probably get it done quicker than we will at REBOL Tech. We're rather swamped with some larger projects right now, but I would be eager to lend some amount of dedicated technical assistance to people trying to implement these protocols. It seems like IRC would be handled with a persistent port and working something like nntp.r, ie: irc-port: open irc://somehost.com insert irc-port [nick "whoever"] insert irc-port [join "#rebol"] etc.. ie, wrap IRC's primitive operations. The protocol is too complex to be handled by simple one liners. In fact, with some effort nntp.r itself could be hacked into doing IRC. Now, xml-rpc seems like it could be done in a more direct way, ie: write xml-rpc://somesite [func-name [param1 param2 param3 . . .]] Results would be returned to REBOL format, so in essence the xml is never seen, just used as the marshaling behind the scenes. Well, those are my thoughts.. if interested in working on something like this, send me mail directly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I'll do what I can to coordinate efforts and assist on the technical side of the port handlers. I'll bet other REBOL Tech. crew will help out too where possible. I'm just forwarding this idea on my own initiative-- that's all. United and strong-- Saludos-- -jeff
