WIFSS

WIFSS Is a F*cking Simple Service

How to use it

Compile the whole project with: make
... or just one side with: make WClient or make WServer

Run with:

./WClient and ./WServer

Commands

List of commands currently available for clients

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

List of commands currently available for the server

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

Additional notes

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

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 we should say ?), and... despite everything, we think this is the case now 😌

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