Is there self-hosted web IRC client that supports DCC/XDCC downloads?
reddit / irc

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humanmeat · 2018-03-07 00:35

Hey new to IRC, trying out web clients on my home server for
convenience.

I setup [The Lounge](https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge)

but when I try to download, I get "You have a DCC pending, Set your
client to receive the transfer"

The config options don't have anything about DCC or downloads

https://thelounge.github.io/docs/server/configuration.html

I assume this means it's just chat only

I googled and there's not much on these type of tools, just cli tools.

I'll try others, but I'm just wondering if I'm wasting my time trying
to find a web/dcc client

Others:

Shout

Kiwi IRC

Thanks

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dizcuss · 2018-03-07 06:18

Kiwi IRC does not support DCC -
https://github.com/prawnsalad/KiwiIRC/issues/591

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prawnsalad · 2018-03-07 18:58

Kiwi IRC dev here.

DCC over the browser cannot work as expected. For DCC to work the two
IRC clients try to connect directly to each other, but since you are
using a web page in a browser that cannot happen.

There are technical ways to get around it but it's not developed into
any web clients as the amount of work and trouble shooting involved
just isn't worth it when someone could simply send you a normal web
download link instead - and is a much better experience all round.

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humanmeat · 2018-03-07 21:21

Wow, I didn't realize there was that much goin on under the hood with
DCC. I naivly took it as a simple point2point transfer ..

Thanks for relaying that.. I kinda suspected that was the case.