Can a browser-based IRC browser communicate directly with an IRC server?

Question

Is it possible for the browser-based irc client to work without using any gateway, i.e. directly contacted the irc server?

Answer 1

In the future this can be done with websockets, currently only chrome supports them, but they are part of the html 5 specification. Http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/

This post assumes that Kaazing has an average javascript runtime: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1252829/what-browsers-support-html-5-websocket

I expect the workaround to use something like java or flash to simulate websockets.

Answer 2

HTML5 WebSockets cannot connect to servers other than WebSocket. Using WebSockets, you can only connect to servers that can respond to WebSocket protocol acknowledgment requests. No, you will not be able to use HTML5 to work with the IRC client (which is very sad, since Flash is quite capable of doing this).

Answer 3

wsproxy can be used as an intermediate layer for messaging. See other topics for more information.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4176344/websocket-relay

Answer 4

Of course, if you use a browser extension or language that can speak the IRC protocol, for example. ChatZilla or PJIRC.