How to get to Dreamviews IRC for dummies -- using Firefox IRC add-on ChatZilla

**TweaK** · 03-24-2009 02:43 PM

I was kind enough to ~~use an old web IRC client I had for another site~~ set up a DV webchat client! Yay!

http://origin.demonation.net/irc/

Click and behold.

**Ne-yo** · 03-24-2009 03:51 PM

WTF??? Tweak? Where have you been? Haven't seen you in over a year.

**TweaK** · 03-24-2009 04:31 PM

Been doing stuff. You know. Sinister stuff.

**Ne-yo** · 03-24-2009 04:37 PM

Haha, It's good to see you back around.

How's Kaniaz? Have you spoken with him lately?

**TweaK** · 03-24-2009 08:19 PM

Yeah. I speak to him on occasion. He's good, I guess. And I'm not really "back around"

Just posted some stuff about the IRC since I'm a sucker for IRC. That's it really.

**Mes Tarrant** · 03-26-2009 12:59 AM

Thanks for the step-by-step.

I found it quite useful.

**TweaK** · 03-26-2009 05:00 PM

Me and Artelis (being the founder of the current #dreamviews) are contemplating actually making an IRC server, rather than just a channel. Would allow us to run custom services etc as well... So OP might have to update the post soon.

**[SomeGuy]** · 03-27-2009 09:21 PM

Nice! I've been chatting with Artelis a lot recently. You guys made #dreamviews? First timeI saw it, I didn't try it. I love it now. Thanks man!

**ClouD** · 03-30-2009 02:47 AM

Haha, TweaK's IRC is fail at the moment.

Resets every few minutes, oh and bump.

v_Edit_v
Yes, I meant web client.

**TweaK** · 03-30-2009 06:05 PM

My IRC? You mean the web client? Yeah. I saw it had some issues.

/me can't be arsed atm.

**guitarboy** · 04-01-2009 05:34 AM

Black_Rose> I hate people
<Black_Rose> but, fortunately
<Black_Rose> you guys are part of my imagination
<Black_Rose> So i love you :3
<Artelis> ...
<msg> I love taylor, my girlfriend
<msg> who smokes a shitton of weed
<Artelis> what are you on about?
<msg> she is in oregon and smokes every day
<msg> and I am jealous
<Artelis> lol
<msg> it is my response to this anyway [21:22:12] <+Black_Rose> So i love you :3
<Artelis> haha
<Artelis> my response to Black_Rose: but, fortunately is:
<Artelis> `kick Black_Rose sorry, we're real people
=-= YOU (Black_Rose) have been booted from #dreamviews by ChanServ ([Artelis] sorry, we're real people)

**Artelis** · 04-01-2009 05:37 AM

sounds like they're mean in there

**guitarboy** · 04-01-2009 05:39 AM

Nawh, I love my imagination :3

**TweaK** · 04-01-2009 09:49 AM

Artelis needs to l2alias/chanserv.

**DeathCell** · 04-01-2009 03:13 PM

Ahh you don't even need a client like mIRC anymore!?!?!

**TweaK** · 04-01-2009 04:36 PM

You can access IRC over webclients if that is what you mean, yes. That's been possible for years.

EDIT: In fact, you never needed a client like mIRC - if you knew the IRC protocol, you could just telnet to an IRC server

**Black_Eagle** · 04-01-2009 04:46 PM

Who the hell is Black_Rose?!?!

**TweaK** · 04-01-2009 04:58 PM

I don't know, who is it ?

**DeathCell** · 04-01-2009 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by TweaK

You can access IRC over webclients if that is what you mean, yes. That's been possible for years.

EDIT: In fact, you never needed a client like mIRC - if you knew the IRC protocol, you could just telnet to an IRC server

I always just stuck with my mIRC.. didn't mess around with telnet..

I guess I've been quite busy the last few years...

**TweaK** · 04-01-2009 06:42 PM

I wasn't entirely serious, but it can be done.

**Artelis** · 04-01-2009 06:59 PM

Originally Posted by DeathCell

I always just stuck with my mIRC.. didn't mess around with telnet..

I guess I've been quite busy the last few years...

just stick with mIRC.

**Ynot** · 04-01-2009 07:02 PM

Code:

tony@tony-desktop:~$ telnet www.dreamviews.com 80
Trying 75.126.198.243...
Connected to dreamviews.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:00:06 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

<html>
<head>
.......
.......
.......
</body>
</html>
Connection closed by foreign host.

**TweaK** · 04-01-2009 07:15 PM

Why? I just did the telnet thing and it's actually not that bad. Here's a tutorial.

Step 1: Get a Telnet client!
One is built into Windows, or alternatively you could use PuTTy or something.

Step 2: Connect!
When your telnet client opens up, connect to irc.darkmyst.org:6667.

Step 3: Identify!
When you're connected, you will be pasted 2 lines. Something along the lines of:

:tempest.de.eu.darkmyst.org NOTICE AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname...
:tempest.de.eu.darkmyst.org NOTICE AUTH :*** Found your hostname.

Now we will send a USER message to the server (without the >):
> USER <username> <hostname> <servername> <realname>
For example:
> USER TweaK lolhost lolserver lolreal
You will get no confirmation message. If you don't get "Unknown command" then you did it fine. Now we need to set a nickname. Type:
> NICK <nickname>
Ie:
> NICK TweaK
Again, no confirmation message. If you get "Already in use" it's already in use, "unknown command" = you made a typo (at such an easy command?!)

Step 4: Join!
Now you will want to join a channel. Type:
> JOIN <channel>
Ie:
> JOIN #dreamviews
You have joined #dreamviews.

Step 5: Talk!
In order to talk, you will need to send the command PRIVMSG.
> PRIVMSG <#channel or nickname> :<message>
That colon before the message is not a typo. If you don't place that colon it will only send the first word, seeing everything after the next space as an argument for the command. But it's not, it's a string. So colon it! If I would want to send Artelis a message, I would enter:
> PRIVMSG Artelis :Sup asshat.
If I would want to send #dreamviews a message:
> PRIVMSG #dreamviews :Sup guys.

Step 6 (synchronous with step 5): Receive!
You will occasionally receive server messages, ie from people talking in the channel, noticing you, etc. It can be a bit cryptic but I'm sure you're smart enough to figure it out.

Step 7: Enjoy the goodness of pure Telnetting!
Telnet is seen as one of the best IRC clients out there.*
In order to use it to its full advantage, you will have to send PING messages to the server every now and again or it will disconnect you if you do not speak. So don't forget to either chat a lot or send PING messages to the server! Enjoy your time in #dreamviews on the best client around!

* In all honesty, Telnet sucks as a client (that should be obvious). It's not meant to be an IRC client per se. It will work, seeing how what we're doing right now is exactly what your actual IRC client is doing, except we're entering all the under-the-hood commands manually. Keeping your connection up (ie pinging once every ~100 seconds or so) and stuff sucks. Just get mIRC. I was just really bored. Also, if you're reading this, I like how you spotted this invisible text.

**Man of Steel** · 04-03-2009 03:18 AM

Okay, now THAT was old school...

**Artelis** · 04-04-2009 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by TweaK

Why? I just did the telnet thing and it's actually not that bad. Here's a tutorial.

Step 1: Get a Telnet client!
One is built into Windows, or alternatively you could use PuTTy or something.

Step 2: Connect!
When your telnet client opens up, connect to irc.darkmyst.org:6667.

Step 3: Identify!
When you're connected, you will be pasted 2 lines. Something along the lines of:

Now we will send a USER message to the server (without the >):
> USER <username> <hostname> <servername> <realname>
For example:
> USER TweaK lolhost lolserver lolreal
You will get no confirmation message. If you don't get "Unknown command" then you did it fine. Now we need to set a nickname. Type:
> NICK <nickname>
Ie:
> NICK TweaK
Again, no confirmation message. If you get "Already in use" it's already in use, "unknown command" = you made a typo (at such an easy command?!)

Step 4: Join!
Now you will want to join a channel. Type:
> JOIN <channel>
Ie:
> JOIN #dreamviews
You have joined #dreamviews.

Step 5: Talk!
In order to talk, you will need to send the command PRIVMSG.
> PRIVMSG <#channel or nickname> :<message>
That colon before the message is not a typo. If you don't place that colon it will only send the first word, seeing everything after the next space as an argument for the command. But it's not, it's a string. So colon it! If I would want to send Artelis a message, I would enter:
> PRIVMSG Artelis :Sup asshat.
If I would want to send #dreamviews a message:
> PRIVMSG #dreamviews :Sup guys.

Step 6 (synchronous with step 5): Receive!
You will occasionally receive server messages, ie from people talking in the channel, noticing you, etc. It can be a bit cryptic but I'm sure you're smart enough to figure it out.

Step 7: Enjoy the goodness of pure Telnetting!
Telnet is seen as one of the best IRC clients out there.*
In order to use it to its full advantage, you will have to send PING messages to the server every now and again or it will disconnect you if you do not speak. So don't forget to either chat a lot or send PING messages to the server! Enjoy your time in #dreamviews on the best client around!

* In all honesty, Telnet sucks as a client (that should be obvious). It's not meant to be an IRC client per se. It will work, seeing how what we're doing right now is exactly what your actual IRC client is doing, except we're entering all the under-the-hood commands manually. Keeping your connection up (ie pinging once every ~100 seconds or so) and stuff sucks. Just get mIRC. I was just really bored. Also, if you're reading this, I like how you spotted this invisible text.

Invisible text aside, someone actually did this the other day and had the gall to complain about it. It was pretty funny. I enjoyed myself. He didn't.

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