Chat Links
mIRC offers the possibility to easily join channels and IRC networks advertised on the World
Wide Web. You can create collections of your favorite chat channels on
your homepage and include links to them! After that you and your friends can easily click on a
link and mIRC will be started automagically and join the channel and/or server you selected.
In the File/Options/IRC/Catcher/ dialog you'll see some options to 'Enable support for chat links'
and to '(Always) Confirm chat link requests'. For safety reasons better keep the latter enabled.
mIRC supports URL's of the irc://irc.server.net:port/channel?key format.
This makes it very easy to add a link on your website leading to your favorite IRC channel!
This also is the best way to make sure your friends all meet at the same network and channel for a gettogether :-)
Simply distribute an URL like irc://undernet/gettogether by E-mail.
Give it a try?
This service is smart enough to see if a mIRC is already running on your PC. If so it is used.
If no active mIRC is found, one is started. A confirmation dialog will pop up if mIRC is already
running and connected to a server. It will ask you what to do; just join the channel on the current network,
reconnect to a different server or network, or start a new connection to a server or network.
Here, some more examples bringing you to #mIRC:
If the link specifies a server address, mIRC will (re)try to connect to that specific server.
If the link just specifies a network name, it will simply pick a server on that network.
If no network or server is specified, as is the irc:///mIRC example,
mIRC will use your current or most recently used IRC network.
If things don't works correctly, in Opera 7.5 for instance, go to Tools/Preferences/Programs and paths and click the "Add" button under "Protocols". This will open a dialog box called "Protocols". Now, simply enter the protocol in the "Protocol" field without a colon or slashes (for example, you can enter "irc", but not "irc:" or "irc://"), and either set Opera to use the system default application to handle this protocol, or specify one in the "Open with other application" field, in this case mIRC.
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