Shared Hosting Chat

[LibreQuest]

I have been working on a shared hosting chat that my family and I use to share videos, photos and chat for the last few years. I just posted the second version on my website if anyone is interested in taking a look at it. The website is https://www.ethchat.net It's licensed AGPL.

 

[Kai Burghardt]

Hardcore UNIX‑users use talk(1)/write(1). ? Unfortunately, your EthChat cannot be downloaded though:​

wget 'https://www.ethchat.net/EthChatProV2.zip'
--2024-04-29 22:08:45--  https://www.ethchat.net/EthChatProV2.zip
Resolving www.ethchat.net (www.ethchat.net)... 52.42.41.200
Connecting to www.ethchat.net (www.ethchat.net)|52.42.41.200|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2024-04-29 22:08:46 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

 

[LibreQuest]

Yeah I'm not sure if wget requests are allowed on my shared hosting plan. It can be downloaded through a browser. It should also work through a text browser if you're using the terminal. However the chat project itself does not work in text browsers unless they have JavaScript support.

 

[gotnull]

Yeah I'm not sure if wget requests are allowed on my shared hosting plan

It's fine, fetch does the job very well.
Thank you for sharing your project

 

[astyle]

Hardcore UNIX‑users use talk(1)/write(1). ? Unfortunately, your EthChat cannot be downloaded though:​

wget 'https://www.ethchat.net/EthChatProV2.zip'
--2024-04-29 22:08:45--  https://www.ethchat.net/EthChatProV2.zip
Resolving www.ethchat.net (www.ethchat.net)... 52.42.41.200
Connecting to www.ethchat.net (www.ethchat.net)|52.42.41.200|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2024-04-29 22:08:46 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

talk(1)/write(1) are meant for internal users on a LAN, not a public service that is visible on the Internet. I once used talk(1) without realizing that the other TTY on the server was being used for demos at a conference my university was was hosting, and visible on a screen in a pretty large auditorium. Talk about a learning experience from 20 years ago... SMH. And all I said, was, "Hi, how you doing?" to someone I knew who was logged in at the time.

 

[LibreQuest]

I just finished version 3 of my chat project. You can download a copy from the front page of the website if you're interested in a shared web hosting focused chat project.

It is licensed AGPL V3.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt

And I use the following scripts and libraries with my project:

jquery-3.7.1.min.js (MIT License https://jquery.org/license/)
jasny linkify.php (Public Domain https://gist.github.com/jasny/2000705)
PHP Image Resize by vincy@phppot.com (Unlicensed, used with permission. Source: https://www.phppot.com/)

Project Home Page

https://www.ethchat.net/

 

[LibreQuest]

Just for fun: I have added a Macintosh HFS floppy disk image to the front page. The disk image was created using OS 9.0 on an iMac G3. For some reason hfsfuse is unable to mount the disk image. I have, however, verified that writing the image to a 1.4MB Mac formatted floppy disk does properly write the data and is readable on an OS 9 machine. I cannot confirm if newer systems are able to read the content properly.

Opening the img file on FreeBSD for some reason opens only a portion of the disk image. It was really fun creating the image for Mac.

 

[Crivens]

What does the basilisk say to the image?

 

[LibreQuest]

What does the basilisk say to the image?

I don't know I've not tried running basilisk/2 in years. However, it should work I would think. From what I understand HFS floppy read is available on all versions of OSX but r/w is only available on OSX 10.5 and older systems. A standard USB floppy drive works with Macs with USB floppy support. I know os9 works but I don't know for certain on any others. I will check with emulation at some point.

 

[SirDice]

talk(1)/write(1) are meant for internal users on a LAN, not a public service that is visible on the Internet. I once used talk(1) without realizing that the other TTY on the server was being used for demos at a conference my university was was hosting, and visible on a screen in a pretty large auditorium. Talk about a learning experience from 20 years ago... SMH. And all I said, was, "Hi, how you doing?" to someone I knew who was logged in at the time.

Just wall(1) everyone in one go

 

[astyle]

What does the basilisk say to the image?

"The scroll is MINE!"

 

[LibreQuest]

Here is V4 of my chat project. If anyone wants to give it a try. It's license AGPL 3.0 and includes MIT and OFL works as well.

Homepage is https://www.ethchat.net

 

[LibreQuest]

I have completed version 5 of my chat forum project EthChat Pro V5.

If anyone is interested you can visit the homepage at https://www.ethchat.net

The project is AGPL V3 and includes works that are Public Domain, MIT, OFL and unlicensed used with permission as well as Usplash licensed work.

In this version I have also written a user manual. The manual is located at this URL

EthChat Pro V5 - User Manual

EthChat Pro V5 - PHP Driven Chat Forum User Manul

ethchat.net

I've added a few new things in this version including licensing options for publicly posting media to a user profile and adding comments to a users creative content. I've fixed a lot of broken things as well. Some of the styles are updated and I've rebuilt a lot of how the pages are displayed for better cross device support. I've got a 2000 line document of changes and I actually don't remember all of them off the top of my head.