It's like a poor man's Slack.com channel :)
Author: Vahid Pazirandeh
Email: [email protected]
Created: July 2013
Source: https://github.com/vahidpaz
First run the server:
./server.py
Then connect with a client:
./client.py <some_username>
Connect with however many clients you want.
For more info use the -h argument.
- No attempts to introduce security have been made. It is likely easy for someone to execute shell code in your terminal and root your box. :}
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This app is asynchronous in that each client gets its own thread.
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The Python modules
asyncore,asynchator a reactive programming model are a much better option than the network I/O layer created here (polling). However, my goal was to gain experience with the low-level socket module and to keep things simple.