RIRC - Remove IRC for the masses

Core:

RIRC is a IRC client inspired in QuasselIRC but intended to be much more generic (I love Quassel, but I want the possibility to have a terminal client). That is why it has a XML-RPC interface that outputs JSON objects for ease of use. The idea is that you can put your RIRC core in a server wherever you want and then you can connect to it securely with any client that uses the XML-RPC interface.

Dependencies:

RIRC core uses the following tools:

Python 2.6
Twisted
Sqlite3
Gnutls
SimpleJSON

Client:

Right now there is only one client written for Emacs. I wanted to implement one with NCurses, but it seemed easier this way. The beauty of this is that you can implement a client in any platform that supports/has a lib for XML-RPC and SSL. So, if you've got a client implemented for this, please let me know!

Using:

Core configuration:

The Core will look for the following files in the datadir: rirc.cfg (configuration, explanation bellow) rirc.pem rirc_priv.pem

Example rirc.cfg

[General] UseAuth=true User=user Password=supersecret LeaveReason="RIRC - Remote IRC for the masses"

[Freenode] SSL=true URL=irc.freenode.net Port=6697 AutoJoin=#channel1,#channel2 Nicks=nick1,nick2

[OtherNetwork] SSL=true URL=irc.othernet.net Port=6697 AutoJoin=#channel1,#channel2 Nicks=nick1,nick2

To run the core, just clone the repo and run:

python core/rirc.py /path/to/your/datadir

The Emacs client depends on json.el and xml-rpc.el. You can find both of them in the following URLs:

http://edward.oconnor.cx/2006/03/json.el http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XmlRpc

After that, just put rirc.el in your load-path, add the following code to your .emacs:

(require 'rirc) (setq rirc-host "myhost.com") (setq rirc-port "8080") (setq rirc-highlight-str "yournick") (setq rirc-cert "/path/to/rirc.pem")

After that, you can just run M-x rirc-init, and that should be it. The code is a little ugly for now, I didn't spend much time documenting and making it pretty, but it works. If you want to improve it in any way, I'm always open to receiving patches.

Creating a self-signed certificate: openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout ~/.config/rirc/rirc_priv.pem -out ~/.config/rirc/rirc.pem

RIRC

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