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Chat

The Chat feature provides text chat transfer through Webcam32's HTTP server providing remote chat display in the form of a multiple frame HTML document.

Chat Settings

Allows you to configure the Webcam32 Chat server for both the local display and remote access.

Local username - Allows you to change the user names sent when a message is entered locally. Remote users cannot login using this name.
Max chat users - Maximum numer of users in chat at one time
Display buffer size - Maximum number the message display area
Chat Enabled - Allows remote access to the Chat sever

Display

Opens the local Chat display window. The Display windows displays previously sent Chat messages. The Who's On window displays the current users connected to your Chat server. By selecting a user from the Who's On list and clicking the Kick User button, a user can be removed from the server. The Message window allows a message to be entered and sent through the server locally. Click the Exit button to close the window.

Remote Access

To allow users to login to the Webcam32 chat server, the Chat server must first be enabled locally. Users can access the server by going to the folowing URL:

http://[YOUR IP ADDRESS]:[Port]/chat/login

This can be linked to in an HTML file:

Where your IP address is the IP address of the machine running Webcam32, and port is the remote access port specified under TCP/IP preferences.