*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/10/99, at 11:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >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 I was no thinking of programming a complete irc client ... just handle any tcp/ip connection ... i have not found the command that all people mention about opening ports and sending data trought them ... i was thinking in any simple irc bot just can connect ... VanHell Thank you all people have helped me ... and hope they continue doing. :)
