Re: chat service

You can accomplish putting chat by a number of means. I'll list two
and I'm sure the rest of the void will be jampacked with other
HWGians' suggestions. :)

One of the easiest ways is to go to a site like Toolzone [1] that
provide you Chat rooms that you can incorporate in your site. Just
sign up with them and they'll guide you from Step A to Z. No problems
whatsoever.

The second way, and the one that I like, is to use a JAVA based
"web->irc" gateway. I trust in JIRC [2] for this. This JAVA
applet/proggy basically lets you connect to any IRC server. The
standard IRC rules apply thereon (join any channel, channel will be
created if not present, etc.) The best thing I like about this is that
anybody who's using an IRC app can interact with your web-based users.

Of course, you can always get yourself a Chatroom Applet and run it
locally on your server. But I don't recommend this cuz if the traffic
grows, then it tends to put a wee load on your server (since the
message distribution is done from serverside).

[1] http://www.toolzone.com
[2] http://www.jpilot.com

HTH.

[abhay]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Almaraz" <dlmaraz(at)pacbell.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 10:01 PM


> I have a client who wants a chat page in his web site.
> Do you know where I can get one (free).
> I   may need a hand placing it in the the HTML. I  know what tags to
use
> but I don't know how to test and get it all validated.

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