WIFSS

WIFSS Is a F*cking Simple Service

What do I have to install and how can I use it ?

1. # aptitude install gcc make openssl libssl-dev

2. • $ openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.temp.key 4096
   • $ openssl rsa -in server.temp.key -out server.key && rm server.temp.key
   • $ openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
   • $ openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt
   • $ cp server.crt client.crt

3. $ make

4. $ ./WServer

5. $ ./WClient

Commands available...

... for the clients

help
who
send <message>
whisper <idClient> <message>
exit
clear

... for the server

help
who
send <message>
whisper <idClient> <message>
disconnect <idClient> ['-1' = all]
exit
clear

Additional notes

1. The client now relies on getAddrInfo() to retrieve some additional information about the address you wanna connect to. So you may use localhost as host address to test this project in local, once the server is running and listening.

2. No data are saved by server, it's just a "bridge" between clients.

3. Do not hesitate to open a new issue if you encounter any problem or any case not yet handled by WIFSS.

What we had to say

Why ?

Because at the very beginning, the project was about creating a software solution which could propose a "file transfer service", between some clients, relayed by an unique server.
But WIFSS original architecture was not designed to deal with "protocols" like that, so we've fallen back on a simple centralized chat service (like the v0.1 [never tagged] was in 2014 😕).

And the real why behind all this ?

Yeah sorry. This project has been created in order to learn how we can use the API socket in C ("The real one", should we say ?), and... despite everything, we think this is the case now 😌