| Connecting to
IRC via the WWW
The following section is not for the faint-of-heart.
But if you are not afraid to push the envelope of your web browser's capabilities
a bit, and are willing to experiment and learn something new--this information
might be "fun."
A new development with IRC
clients has been the implementation of the "chat" document type
that allows one to connect to IRC via the world wide web. A few IRC clients,
including IRCle, Global Chat, mIRC, and Pirch have this capability if
the proper settings have been made in your web browser.
Essentially, you must go into
the section that controls how your browser handles non-standard document
types. In Netscape this is found under Options, General Preferences, Helpers
and in Internet Explorer it is located under View, Options, Viewers. Other
browsers will have something similar.
You will want to add a new
file type with the extension "chat" and then designate your IRC
program as the application that "views" it. In the case of Global
Chat, this is configured when you install the program. For mIRC,
you must use the "MLINK32.EXE" application (located
in the same directory as MIRC32.EXE). For Pirch, simply use the
PIRCH.EXE file you normally use to launch the application.
If things are setup properly,
clicking on any of the .chat icons for the servers above will launch your
IRC client, connect you to the given server, and then place you in the
#osho channel. This is admittedly just a "toy" in the sense that
once you are familiar with IRC, it's a fairly simple matter to connect
to the right server without going through the Web at all. But, it is likely
that more Web pages will have .chat links on them, so once you're set up
for this, you can connect to IRC channels through them.
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