Ottobre 2010

Client-to-client protocol

Client-To-Client Protocol (CTCP) is a special type of communication between Internet Relay Chat (IRC) clients. CTCP is a common protocol implemented by most major IRC clients in use today. CTCP extends the original IRC protocol by allowing users to query other clients for specific information. Additionally, CTCP can be used to encode messages that the raw IRC protocol would not allow to be sent over the link, such as messages containing newslines or the byte value 0. CTCP allows users to […]

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What’s IRC?

mIRC is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for Microsoft Windows, created in 1995 and developed by Khaled Mardam-Bey. Although it is a fully functional chat utility, its integrated scripting language makes it extensible and versatile. mIRC has been downloaded over twenty-three million times from CNET’s www.download.com service. Nielsen//NetRatings also ranked mIRC among the top ten most popular Internet applications in 2003. It is unknown if the “m” in mIRC stands for anything (the author’s personal FAQ explains that “it […]

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