Chat Server

A peer-peer Chat server where the files are transferred in a chatroom between peers directly

Getting Started

1. To add hostname for the chat server to start

   • Go to /etc/hosts(on linux) and change your hostname, not the localhost to the ip given in on both client and server.

2. Now how to start the chat server

   • Go to code directory and start the server.py.
   • To start the client, start the client.py giving the ip address and port the server is running on.

     server.py
     client.py --ip <server ip> --port <5000> -w <16>
     <username>
     create
     <name>
     @all|whohas|<filename>
     @<mentioned name>|getfile|<filename>
   

3. The file is stored in the Folder code/folder.