miau is a small, fully featured IRC bouncer and IRC proxy.
The biggest difference of miau and HTTP-proxy (forgetting the fact they talk all different protocols) is that when IRC-client disconnects from bouncer, the connection to the server isn't necessarily lost.
This way your nick can stay online and cannot be taken by the others. In case bouncer loses the nick because of netsplit or other disruption, it can try to get it back automatically.
Some people may also like the fact that when using bouncer, your hostname appearing in IRC is the one of the machine the bouncer is running at, not the one you are IRCing from.
miau was written on GNU/Linux (i386), but it should compile on most UNIX-platforms.
Here are some key features of "miau":
· Permanent connection to IRC-server
· Can set user away when client quits and can also use user's quit-message as away-message.
· Ability to try to get primary nick
· Logging (recent log can be replayed automatically at reconnect like you already had been on the channel)
· Message forwarding
· DCC-bouncing
· Auto-mode (without mode-flood)
· Flood protection
· On-connect sent messages (to keep nickservs etc. happy)
· Ability to survive even if some pings to server are lost
· V-host support
· Preliminary IPv6-support (untested)
· Cats in ASCII
· Support for multiple clients (one at home, one at office)
· Permission-chains
· Portable, written in C
· Compiles (at least) on GNU/Linux (i386/StrongARM/Alpha), HP-UX (HP 9000/C3000), SunOS (sun4m/sun4u/sun4c), Digital UNIX (Alpha) and MacOSX (PPC). Not tested on others.
· Small (my miau is about 50 kB KiB on GNU/Linux on i386)
· Most features can be left uncompiled
· Released under GPL
What's New in This Release:
· This release fixes several issues with Undernet-like servers, and improves your chances of staying online in case of netsplit and network problems.
· The behaviour of the wildcard "*" is finally predictable, although non-greedy.
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