Ray's Easily Scaled Chat -- RESC

Description:

RESC is an attempt at making a simple and easy to use communication platform. My goal is to enable it to scale for lots of connected users. As of right now I have the system capable of chat communication and file streaming via the ApiBot. The next big milestone is make the ApiBot an on Demand resource for content.
-Ray

Dependencies:

Curses.h:

(Ubuntu Precise @ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev)

Compile:

Mac OS X

make

Linux (Ubuntu Precise)

g++ rescClient.cpp -o rescClient -pthread -lcurses -std=c++0x
g++ rescServer.cpp -o rescServer -pthread -std=c++0x
g++ rescApiBot.cpp -o rescApiBot -pthread -std=c++0x

Usage:

Running the server:

./rescServer <port number>

Running the Client

./rescClient <server hostname/IP> <port number>

Running the API Bot (Runs GET requests only)

./rescApiBot <server hostname/ip> <port number> <bot username> <url of api>

Protocol:

RESC follows two simple patterns for sending messages.

/all (message) : Send a message to all connected users. Default message type and will assume this type if not specified.
/msg (username) (message) : Send a message to a specific user