IRC network protocol *textbased?*

Most common protocols are text-based: HTTP, FTP, POP3.

Text-based protocols are a little bit harder to convert into discrete packets, typically you have to implement some sort of "read until I see a \n" type of logic instead of "read the first two bytes".

Yeap.

You could conduct an IRC session using telnet if you knew the commands (and were a masochist).

me and a friend at university are going to write a irc bot that analizes dump questions and gives even dumper answers :)

thx for making this clear shouldn t be that difficult then i hope

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Original post by evolutional Yeap. You could conduct an IRC session using telnet if you knew the commands (and were a masochist).

Bah! Take it as a challenge! ;) I've done some ircing with telnet when I needed some help on for example installing Linux but I didn't have an irc client yet.. Not that hard really.