IRC-Documentation/doc/index.md

Index of IRC protocol documentation.

Important

Before you start reading this, here's what you need to know.

• We visualize the socket this way:
  ↗️ Sent by client, recieved by server
↙️ Sent by server, recieved by client
🔀 Sent by server, recieved by a DIFFERENT client (e.g. target of PRIVMSG)
• In client-side scenarios, we use the nickname nick for the primary client
  and foo for the secondary client (the nickname nick will send to sometimes.)

• Basics

  • Formatting of socket
  • Initial connection
  • Colon Prefixing

• Server Replies, documented

  • Errors
    • 421 - Unknown command