IRC Based Homepage Chatroom

[Bone-A Lisa]

Hey There! idk if this qualifies as a "Web Project" per-say, but its for my main site so I figure this was the best spot!

I've been wanting to try and somehow integrate a chatbox on my home page that I could interact with in useful ways -- mainly get notified on my phone when people pop in and say hi -- and I think I finally have it working well! If you just want to see it, come chat with me at my homepage on the left sidebar!

For some background: Previously, I was using cbox for this chat box. It worked, but it didn't really feel like a very useful chat room as it was basically just a guestbook since I was never able to be on when others popped into my site, so I wanted to try and find a way to improve this. At first, I was looking for a way to integrate a Matrix client, as that's my open source communication protocol of preference, but there doesn't seem to be any good matrix clients implemented in pure JavaScript . Eventually, I stumbled across gamja, which is a simple IRC client implemented entirely in JavaScript, and that let me implement this as it is now.

As it stands, this is the setup:

• Ergo is running as the IRC server (irc.dakotamarshall.net:6667)
• gamja is deployed at https://irc.dakotamarshall.net, configured to automatically connect to my IRC server, and join the #net-chat channel
• An iframe on my site that automatically loads the gamja page

And with this, I have a fully functional chat on my site, that people can pop in and out of, and I can keep an IRC client up on my phone to say hi when people pop in.

BUT, I don't really use IRC that much, and would prefer to use Matrix still.... enter heisenbridge, a IRC -> Matrix bridge. Setting this up let me connect the #net-chat IRC channel to a room on my matrix server, #net-chatting:dakotamarshall.net. So now I have a Matrix room that I get messages from my website chat room on!

If you want to come stop by and say hi, Id love some testers (and company )!!

• Visit my website and use the chatbox
• Visit the dedicated IRC page
• Connect to the IRC server using your preferred IRC client (irc.dakotamarshall.net:6667) and join the #net-chat channel
• Join the public matrix room #net-chatting:dakotamarshall.net

Let me know what yall think, or if you want any more detail!

[lakes]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I tried to connect and got this error message:

Code

 Looking up irc.dakotamarshall.net
* Connecting to irc.dakotamarshall.net (107.137.198.177:6667)
* Connection failed ((167772427) error:0A00010B:SSL routines::wrong version number)
 Are you sure this is a SSL capable server and port?

[Bone-A Lisa]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I tried to connect and got this error message:

Code

 Looking up irc.dakotamarshall.net
* Connecting to irc.dakotamarshall.net (107.137.198.177:6667)
* Connection failed ((167772427) error:0A00010B:SSL routines::wrong version number)
 Are you sure this is a SSL capable server and port?

Ah! yea so either you have to disable SSL, or if your client enforces SSL, try using port 6697 instead. I don't have any official certs on there right now, just using self signed certificates but it should theoretically work if your client allows you to accept self-signed certificates?

Let me know if you run into any more issues!

[lakes]

Ah! yea so either you have to disable SSL

Okay that worked. Thanks.