All about: OKserver and ChatOk

• Features
• A bit of History

OKserver (v2.21) added features:

Added BROADCASTING functionality and it can be defined in OKserver.ini as follows CHANNEL0.BROADCAST=yes

Broadcasting is for people who want to watch only what are others talking about and it is working only in full version. Broadcasting uses UDP network protocol and is visible using OKboard applet

OKserver (v2.00) added features:

removed the chanfile, channels can now
configured using init file OKserver.ini
as follows:

#Channels and channel properties
CHANNEL0.NAME=channel0 name
CHANNEL0.LIMIT=channel0 usres limit
CHANNEL0.PASS=cahnnel0 password (plaintext)
CHANNEL0.MINLEVEL=minumum accesslevel required to access channel0

Example:
CHANNEL0.NAME=Channel0
CHANNEL0.LIMIT=20
CHANNEL0.PASS=secret
CHANNEL0.MINLEVEL=1

deafult values are Channel0, 30, , 0

OKserver (v1.94) and ChatOk (v1.11) added features:
 

Applet tags:

Up to 10 banners:
<param name=banner0 value="chatok.gif|http://www.online.ee/~andrik/chatok/try.html|Try it free, really cool!|5|450|60">

where:

chatok.gif - is banner mage
http://www.online.ee/~andrik/chatok/try.html - is url banner link points to
Try it free, really cool! - is the banner status text
5 - number of seconds to display this banner
450 - banner width (pixels)
60 - banner height (pixels)

 
Commands:
• /SETTOPIC topic - will update topic of current channel
• /TOPIC topic - will show the current channel topic
• /IP user - will show now also the url from applet if logged in.
• /SETRIGHTS user,al - there was added additional level -1 what means that account is disabled
• Improved server configuration, acesslist of applet allowed URLs.

 

/CHANGEPASS user,newpass - enables superuser to change user password if user had forgot his password.

ADDED STRONG encryption to user passwords, so all user passwords are encrypted with keys generated from password using 128bit lenght key and IDEA algorithm.

OKserver (v1.82) and ChatOk (v1.06) added features:

• /HELP - prints out help message about chat commands
• /KILL username - removes the user account
• The Sound on option checkbox was added to the applet options, if checked the sound will be palyed when private message received or chat leaved.

OKserver (v1.58) and ChatOk (v1.04) added features:

• /BAN username,minutes - changed from /BAN ipaddress, hours
• /BANIP ip address,hours - will block the ip address for hopurs specified by hours argument (allowed for levels>4).
• Added special check to not allow to use some specific symbols in username.

New commands:

• /IP username - will show the current IP address of user specified by   username.
• /IDLE username - will show the how long the user has been connected without talking.
• /INFO - server usage statistics.
• /USERINFO username or /UI username - gives information about users last connection and summary of connections.(information available only about users who have passwords)
• /SETRIGHTS username,level - lets Superuser to change

others access levels, level must be number between 0..9.
(allowed only for superusers).

Access Levels:

• 0 - basic access for everyone
• 1- gives addidional rigts to use command /IP
• 3 - gives rights for BAN (basic Admistrator)
• 5 - gives rights for BANIP (advanced Admistrator)
• 6 - advanced, no need for channel passwords
• 9 - Superuser

Other levels are reserved for future use!

Applet parameters:

 

Parameter	Value/type	Meaning
host	hostname or ip address String	the server's host name
port	integer	the server host port
bannerurl	url	the url to show if banner clicked
bannerimg	url	the url of banner image
imgheight	integer	the banner image height in pixels
imgwidth	integer	the banner image width in pixels
linkstring	String	the string dispalyed when mouse on banner
bgcolor	0-16777215 integer	the applet background color
forecolor	0-16777215 integer	the applet foreground color
taforecolor	0-16777215 integer	textarea  foreground color
tabg	0-16777215 integer	textarea  background color
listforecolor	0-16777215 integer	userlist  foreground color
listbgcolor	0-16777215 integer	userlist  background color

Main features:

• PRIVATE: if you want to talk privately to someone you need chek the "Privately" chackbox and select the user from user window.
• IGNORE: To ignore some user make a double click on user you need to ignore and the user status will change  as follows: user - I=> user To set user back normal please make a double click on this  user again.
• Messages ON: if checked, the chat will display you the additional messages who are joined the channel and left.
• Channles: this chat supports multi channels, channels are independent and separated. If you would like to change the channel - just select another.

 

Commands:

• /SETPASS your password - sets protection to your name, so others cant login under your name.
• /SETPASS - just removes the password protection from  your username.
• /USERS or /WHO - will show all users by channels(same like "Users" button).
• /TO username, message - will send your message to user  specified by username no matter what channel. Useful to   communicate between channels.
• /TOALL message... - will send your message to all users on  all channels(allowed to administrators).

Public & private talking.
Up to 25 separated channels, it could enlarged if neccessary
Password protected channels.
The user limit on channel is 30 normal users + administarators.
The number of maximum total users is 200 but this is also related to the power of the server computer and how many simultanously open files the system will support, because for every user there will created  a tcp socket connection and system will interpret it as open file in some matter.    Command for setting user password, between channels communication and administrators have possibilities to ban out bad users.

ChatOkis integrated with OKserver and support all the fetures described aboveChatOkis simple to use and it takse a very little time to downaload it over network so all the components and modulese together make only 37kB, what is like just a half of screen graphical image ChatOk has possibility to ignore users you don't like to hear aboput just by clicking a doubleclick on the user at the userlist window. There is also an "Options" button to let uses to customize the text  font and size.

This all began 20.09.97
before 30.09.97 problems with server witch did shut down often
from 1.10.97 added feature that not possible to log in twice or more under the same
username

OK jutukas is divided into two parts the ChatOk applet, what is the user interface or client and the OKserver what is the server for this chat system as an engine what processes all the users messages and other actions.
Starting from december 1997 the old server written in perl was let as is and I began developing the java based server application now known under name of OKserver.
OKserver is 100% java application and heavily object oriented.
OKserver starting from version 0.41 should not  die or hang up any more. OKserver can be run on every operating system supporting java - jdk 1.1 or jre 1.1.
 

 

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11.10.1998