Ретранслируемый интернет-чат: Протокол клиента

Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol

Network Working Group C. Kalt

Request for Comments: 2812 April 2000

Updates: 1459

Category: Informational

Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol

Status of this Memo

This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does

not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this

memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.

IESG NOTE:

The IRC protocol itself enables several possibilities of transferring

data between clients, and just like with other transfer mechanisms

like email, the receiver of the data has to be careful about how the

data is handled. For more information on security issues with the IRC

protocol, see for example http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/security/.

Abstract

The IRC (Internet Relay Chat) protocol is for use with text based

conferencing; the simplest client being any socket program capable of

connecting to the server.

This document defines the Client Protocol, and assumes that the

reader is familiar with the IRC Architecture [IRC-ARCH].

Table of Contents

1. Labels ..................................................... 3

1.1 Servers ................................................ 3

1.2 Clients ................................................ 3

1.2.1 Users ............................................. 4

1.2.1.1 Operators .................................... 4

1.2.2 Services .......................................... 4

1.3 Channels ............................................... 4

2. The IRC Client Specification ............................... 5

2.1 Overview ............................................... 5

2.2 Character codes ........................................ 5

2.3 Messages ............................................... 5

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