freddiebrown/portchat

A terminal based local chat application

Port based chat

To chat, use netcat to connect to server and send it messages

To build the project, use make build to build it. To run the project, use make run port=8080 with 8080 being the port number to open. Also, can be run using ./main 8080.

portchat's Issues

Make README look better and explain functionality within it

README is currently looking a bit poor and so could be made to look a bit more jazzy. Extend the README to have better setup instructions and explain what the program can do to make it easier for new users. Also explain about how to contribute to the repo.

Fix Memory Leaks

This code has memory leaks in it. They need to be fixed.

Clean buffer properly after sending

Buffer doesn't clean properly after sending message from createMessage. This means that, when 2 messages are sent back to back it sends the previous message plus the new message. This continues for subsequent messages too

Allow multiple clients to connect to server

Currently the program only allows a single client to connect to a server at 1 time. This enhancement should allow multiple clients to connect to the server at the same time to allow then to each send messages to the server and to allow the server to send messages to multiple clients at once.

Add a way for clients to send each other messages using the server

Add a way for clients to send each other messages using the server. E.g. client A connects to the server, as does client B. Client A then sends a message to server and that message is sent out to client B after. A prerequsite for this being able to happen is #15

Client quits server and produces odd output

When client is connected to server using netcat. client quits (^c), server will produce weird output.

Build logging option so that chats are listed in Logs

Create the ability to log all messages sent to computer into a file. This functionality could also deal with the printing of messages to STDOUT