This is a simple socket-based chat application implemented in Python using TCP sockets. It allows multiple clients to connect to a server and chat with each other.

• The server listens for incoming connections and manages client messages
• Each client runs two separate threads:
  • One thread for sending messages
  • One thread for receiving messages

In the works:

• Upgrade the TCP socket communication to a WebSocket protocol -> requires encryption as part of the WebSocket handshake
• Encode and decode websocket frames instead of using fixed-length messages

To run

Note that it currently only works on Linux machines (using select.poll instead of select.select -> change that line for windows and it should work)

git clone <repository-url>
cd <repository-folder>
python server.py 5000
python client.py localhost 5000 Alice
python client.py localhost 5000 Bob