508343 - Embedded web IRC client on Mozilla servers

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[[:Cww]]

For events like SFD, we use mibbit to connect visitors to #sumo so they can take part.  This past event, mibbit was down for the first 30 minutes or so and there was a TON of panic and trying to find a workaround.

Can we get a web based IRC implementation on a mozilla server (I would vote for not a SUMO server but maybe?) so that if anything happens, we can get IT to fix it rather than relying on another company?  (Is there one we can use that is pretty stable?)

This isn't URGENT for the next SFD (mibbit works 99.9% of the time and odds are good that it won't break).

Comment 1

[Matthew Middleton (:zzxc)]

In the past we have used the cgi:irc installation on landfill.bugzilla.org, with a static HTML page to host a login page.  If we continue to use this, all we need is to get a static html page similar to http://zzxc.net/sumo/chat.html on a production server.

If we need to change the style or configuration of cgi:irc, we should investigate hosting the client on support.mozilla.com.  This would let us do things like hide the contact list or change the font size for events.

Comment 2

[[:Cww]]

We are embedding this into a pretty small iframe so the ability to change font size and customize CSS would be REALLY helpful.  I don't feel that the SUMO production servers are the best place for it though but I'm going to assign this bug to IT for comments about how they want to do this.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

like http://landfill.bugzilla.org/irc/ ?

Comment 4

[David Tran]

I can play around with mibbit, cgi::irc, and a few other web irc chat clients that we can install/embed. I don't think that implementing our own will necessarily lead to more reliable client.

Comment 5

[David Tran]

Moving back to server ops since I'm not sure how we want to move forward here

Comment 6

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

Matthew/Cheng,

Seems like we already have an example in place (comment #3). Would something like that suffice? or you guys are looking for different stuff?

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I'd have no issue with running CGI::IRC (or something similar) right on the IRC server since it's already got a web server running on it (http://irc.mozilla.org/)

Have you guys had luck with the embedding styling and so forth yet? (or have you played any yet?)

Comment 8

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

ping...

Comment 9

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

Have suggested solutions, haven't heard on last comment, closing.