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I’m looking to write an IRC client in C, the trouble is I’m a bit of an IRC noob and I don’t know exactly how IRC servers accept connections.
My English isn’t too good, would someone be able to show me some pseudocode for an IRC connection?
It’s a TCP, line-based protocol. Just send something like this:
Other than that, just respond to a
PINGwith a correspondingPONG. Example:I sent:
I got:
The protocol is documented in RFC1459. The biggest change since the RFC was released is that nicknames can now be longer, typically up to 30 characters.