DICE

DICE : IRC/HTTP/opennap hybrid server for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003.

DICE is a multi-protocol hybrid server application that will offer simultaneous connectivity from IRC clients, HTTP clients (WWW browsers) and opennap clients.

Here are some key features of "DICE":

￭ Overview RFC 1459/2812 compliant IRC server (See here for the list of modifications to the RFC spec) HTTP 1.1 (RFC2616)-compliant web server OpenNap-compliant directory-publishing service Runs as Windows Service Secure remote administration via web user-interface over SSL (certificate required) Fully optimized to Windows OS and multicore processors with multithreading and advanced I/O Compatible with Windows Firewall in Windows XP SP2 / Windows Server 2003 SP1 UPnP port mapping for NAT traversal Reports global IP-address change by UPnP and automatically updates a dynamic DNS entry

￭ Web Fully customizable AJAX-based web UI and multi-locale text resources in XML Bulit-in user control panel in the web UI provides membership database management HTTP Digest access authentication PHP 5 support via ISAPI Extension .NET web application container with on-demand C#/VB.NET/JScript source compilation Fast Perl CGI execution by the embedded Perl interpreter CAPTCHA image-based authentication against account registration spam Hotlink protection against bandwidth leech Remote file download manager among administration tools in the web UI

￭ IRC Chat Interoperability of IRC clients and opennap clients in channels User-customizable Web IRC Client in Flash and JavaScript that enables access via a web browser IRC User Shell provides persistent nick / channel management IRC host-spoof proxy scanner (SOCKS4/5/Wingate/HTTP) IRC over SSL and normal IRC through a single port User-customizable multi-locale IRC text resources in XML Unique hostname masking that hides user IP addresses in IRC Built-in spam-killer bot against private message spam Channel creation lock and forced channel join Comprehensive server-side channel activity logging

Requirements:

￭ .NET Framework 2.0

Limitations:

￭ In the evaluation version, IRC users can't use their own nick names.