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.