README

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Description: A set of scripts (server, irssi client, desktop client) that work together to send and receive notifications from irssi.
http://prowlapp.com/

Version: 1.0

Author: Nathan Chowning (nathanchowning@me.com)

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# The multinotify-irssi.pl script is based on my irssi-prowl-notifier script which is based on
# fnotify created by Thorsten Leemhuis
# http://www.leemhuis.info/files/fnotify/
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This script requires the following perl modules:
Gtk2::Notify or Cocoa::Growl
WebService::Prowl (Not yet, but soon)
IO::Socket::SSL (Not yet, but soon)

SETTING UP THE SERVER:
    -Edit multinotify-server.pl and add the listening IP address as well as the listening port
    -The default number of connections is 5 you can change that by modifying the "Listen" value
    -Be sure that you're not blocking access to the port that you decide to use

    Once the server is setup, run it with the following command:
        perl multinotify-server.pl

SETTING UP THE IRSSI CLIENT:
    -Edit multinotify-irssi.pl to change $IPADDRESS and $PORT variable values to match the
     values set in multinotify-server.pl

    Once you've edited it, copy it to ~/.irssi/scripts/ and execute the following command inside
    of irssi:
        /script load multinotify-irssi.pl

SETTING UP THE DESKTOP CLIENT:
    -Edit multinotify-client.pl to change $IPADDRESS and $PORT variable values to match the
     values set in multinotify-server.pl
    -You'll need to have Gtk2::Notify (Linux) or Cocoa::Growl (Mac) on the computer that
     you'll be running this on

    Once you've edited it, run it with:
        perl multinotify-client.pl

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-Figure out what characters are causing random freezing and strip/escape them
-Fix the desktop client issue involving long periods of inactivity
-Use IO::Socket::SSL rather than IO::Socket::INET to secure the data
-Add support for snarl to the desktop client
-Add support to the server to automatically send missed notifications to prowl

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VERSION 1.0:
    -Removed use of IO::Select from the server in favor of creating a new thread for
     receiving clients
    -Updated the Desktop client to use Cocoa::Growl as opposed to Mac::Growl as
     Mac::Growl does not play well with 64-bit OS X.