This is a really good example of how you can obtain 80% of the value of huge, complex apps with 1% of the code. It feels like the open source/self-hosted/simple app market it is probably under-served. Chat is one example, but another is a small, simple 'social network' for a team, group of friends, or family.
This small chat is intented for a small team, not for global internet usage like I do here :) Usually in a small team there is no spammer, and if there is one, he's banned quickly from the team :)
But yes, I'm open to contribution about antispam / flood control. Constructive additions appreciated :)
Well the real cleaning / sanitizing part has to be done on the server... I'll work on this in the next weeks, after some other more important projects... This is just a proof-of-concept fun project anyway :)
Thanks @alexdumitru for pointing me this. I implemented a basic flood control (https://github.com/josephernest/talktalktalk/commit/43877bd1...), and now such a script doesn't work anymore. Of course you can then do another script that would automatically reconnect after being kicked out, etc.
Thank you. Look forward to playing with / using this.
Reminds me of using Jabber years ago with a couple of friends. Not for the protocol, but for the clean interface and essentially having "our own place".
Something I've a pretty strong hankering for, these days.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 59.2 ms ] threadSomeone can be very very very proud of crashing my super-low-end 6€/year sandbox VPS with 256 MB of RAM... Waw, he's probably a very good hacker :)
Don't be angry!
the chat right now needs features to prevent abuse
https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-a...
Does it? It sounds like this is built for internal corporate/team use where this isn't a problem.
I was able to keep your server down by using only this:
> setInterval( function () { for(i=0;i<=9999; i++) { ws.send(JSON.stringify({ type: 'message', username: $('#username').text(), message: 'seems like the ws server is fucked. stop spamming' })); } }, 1000);
But yes, I'm open to contribution about antispam / flood control. Constructive additions appreciated :)
https://github.com/josephernest/talktalktalk/blob/master/tal...
I think you could escape the text from #writing before sending it.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/4835406
Reminds me of using Jabber years ago with a couple of friends. Not for the protocol, but for the clean interface and essentially having "our own place".
Something I've a pretty strong hankering for, these days.