
This article assumes that you are familiar with ASP, XML and HTML. Using this chat system, we can chat how we conventionally chat, in public as well as private modes. Even though I've implemented most of the conventional features such as unique nick names, the reader is welcome to incorporate any other features they require. Please note that I didn't worry much about memory usage on the server side and the code that allots user ids obviously needs improvement. Let us talk about the overall functionality. The message from the browser is sent to the server via Microsoft's XMLHTTP Object. Using this same XMLHTTP Object, the messages are retriev..
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