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Hack 86 Hypertext Links to IRC Channels

Looking for an easy way to get people to join
your channel? Add IRC hyperlinks to your web pages.

One way of making
your IRC channel easily accessible is to increase the number of ways
people can join it. Creating an HTML hyperlink that points to your
IRC channel is a convenient way of letting people know the server
details and channel name.

To be able to use these links, you must have an IRC client installed
that has chat link support enabled. If you have the
ChatZilla
IRC client installed, you can expect to be able to just click on IRC
links to connect to the server and join the specified channel. In
some other clients, such as
mIRC, you will need to enable
support for chat links, as shown in Figure 14-1.

Figure 14-1. Enabling chat links in mIRC

14.2.1 HTML IRC Links

IRC links are specified like any other
hyperlink, but with irc as the protocol. Valid IRC
links look like this:

<a href=">irc-server:port/channel?key>Click to join</a>

Each IRC URL can be broken up into four parts:

irc-server

The IRC server to connect to.

port

The port number to connect to. This is optional and must be preceded
by a colon character if you use it. If you do not specify a port
number, the default of 6667 will be used.

channel

When your IRC client connects to the server, it will automatically
join this channel. Note that you must not include the
# character.

key

If the channel is password protected, you can specify the key. This
is also optional and must be preceded by a question mark character.

14.2.2 Example Links

If you just want people to be able to
connect to your IRC network in a hurry, you needn't
bother specifying a channel to join:

<a href=">Connect to my IRC server</a>

If you have a channel on the freenode IRC network (irc.freenode.net)
called #mychan and it has a key of
"password", you could let web users
visit your channel by providing the following link:

<a href=">Join my private channel</a>

The most typical example you will see in use on the Web would be a
link that points at a public channel, such as:

<a href=">IRC Hacks Channel</a>

Clicking on this hyperlink will launch your IRC client and join the
#irchacks channel on the freenode IRC network.

Alex North