Simple Web based chat engine.

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Introduction

Simple but highly effective AJAX based chat engine. Supports multiple rooms and uses forms based authentication.  

Background 

Needed a way to chat to my partner when she was at work. Most chat engines fall foul of firewall rules. This site is hosted at http://simes.getmyip.com/vilain/.

Points of Interest 

Supports multiple rooms and uses Windows form based authentication. All state is held in memory and I leave it up the reader to implement a more sophisticated back end.  The chatroom supports multiple channels and has some rudimentary administritive functionality such as the capability to kick and unkick users. Private messaging is supported as are various "dot" commands such as .help, .kick, .users etc.

History 

Added private messaging and a few admin functions such as kick and unkick. Updates are all AJAX based and the room runs very smoothly and quickly. It has been tested in all the major browsers and seems to work well.

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