🌐 FT_IRC 🌐

Bridging the Bytes for Seamless Conversations 🌉

🧠 About the project

A basic implementation of an IRC server that handles authentication, user registration, bot, file transfer and several chat commands. 🖥️

🌟 Features

🔒 Authentication: Authenticate users with a password.

🖋️ Registration: Register users by setting their nickname (NICK) and real name (USER).

📜 Command Handling: Process various commands like JOIN, BAN, TOPIC and PRIVMSG.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Multi-Client Handling: Uses poll() system call to handle multiple clients simultaneously.

🤖 Bot: Detects if a user sends messages with bad words in it.

🗂️ File Transfer: It's possible to send files through clients.

🚀 Getting Started

🛠️ Prerequisites

A C++ compiler with support for C++11 or newer. Basic knowledge of IRC protocols (optional).

📖 Compilation

You can compile the project using:

make

And then run the server:

./ircserv <port> <password>

For example:

./ircserv 6667 12345

🙏 Acknowledgments

A huge thank you to my colleagues gacorrei and abaiao-r for their invaluable contributions and insights. This project wouldn't be the same without their assistance. 🙌

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.