hii is a file-based IRC client inspired by ii.
Backwards compatibility with ii wasn’t a goal. While the directory structure is mostly backwards compatible everything else is pretty much different. This is the case because proper backwards compatibility would have been a lot of work.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Memory safety.
- A proper IRC protocol implementation through girc.
- Support for automatically joining channels on startup.
- Support for IRCv3.2 monitoring.
- Support for a per-channel nick list using a UNIX domain socket.
- Support for recording messages mentioning the users.
- Support for authentication using TLS client certificates (CertFP):
- Most IRC networks support CertFP.
- This can be used in conjunction with the SASL EXTERNAL mechanism.
- Built-in TLS support.
- Built-in IPv6 support.
Website: github.com/nmeum/hii
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Developer: Sören Tempel
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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