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girc

IRC server written in Golang.

circ is trying to do the same with C, but I have to update the protocol version.

Test Clients

I'm currently using Colloquy and Shout to test my functionality.

Feature List

Currently (Partially) Supported Commands

• Messaging Sending messages
  • PRIVMSG tehcyx hello tehcyx Private messages
  • NOTICE tehcyx hello tehcyx Notice
• Connection registration Connection registration
  • PASS secretpass Password message
  • NICK tehcyx [ <hopcount> ] Nick message - hopcount actually not yet supported
  • USER <user> <mode> <unused> <realname> User message
  • QUIT [<Quit message>] Quit - Quit message not supported
• Channel operations Channel operations
  • JOIN <channel>{,<channel>} [<key>{,<key>}] Join message
  • PART <channel>{,<channel>} Part message

What's next

• Connection registration Connection registration
  • OPER <user> <password> Oper
• Channel operations Channel operations
  • MODE Mode message
    • <channel> {[+|-]|o|p|s|i|t|n|b|v} [<limit>] [<user>] [<ban mask>] Channel modes
    • <nickname> {[+|-]|i|w|s|o} User modes
  • TOPIC <channel> [<topic>] Topic message

And after that

• SERVER <servername> <hopcount> <info> Server message
• SQUIT <server> <comment> Server quit message

RFC

• RFC2812

Inspiring reads

• IRC Examples
• Modern IRC ...
• Go Concurrency
• Go Testing
• Go Package Names
• Go Documentation