NG CHAT PROTOCOL-- First revision

Message format:
PMSG <TARGET> :MESSAGE
CMSG <TARGET> :MESSAGE
-- Much like IRC, except in this protocol messages are split into 2 types, private messages and channel messages. Channels won't have prefixes in this protocol.

Examples:

Messsage to another user:
PMSG Chronamut :hi r u there
Channel message:
CMSG home :l o l hi asl

However, that is just how messages are sent to the server on a socket level.
They will be sent to the client like this.
PMSG <USER> <TARGET> :MESSAGE

Once again, this is like IRC, but there is no hostmask involved. This eliminates channel bans, but since accounts are managed by a single handle on newgrounds this is not a problem. For more extreme cases, chat admins can issue a global ban for the IP. To prevent abuse, ips will never actually be shown to anyone. IPs will be masked even to admins, this is not a problem since we will use a cryptographic hash algorithm to represent a user's IP address.


Now, things get slightly more complicated.
Getting the user list will be something like this.

USERS CHANNEL
^this is what the client will send to the server.
The server will then reply with a series of messages like this, for each user in the channel
USER CHANNEL <username>

this can be performed on channel join, and time to time, if the client is registered in a channel.

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