mud-web-client

What is this?

Webapp to connect to a MUD / MUSH / MOO game server, supporting all major data interchange and interactive text protocols. The connection is done through a secure websocket (wss:// protocol), so you will need a proxy in the server that translates the wss sessions to telnet. You can use the mud-web-proxy project to achieve that.

You can see this project working in the maldorne.org web page.

History

This project is a fork of MUDPortal-Web-App, made by @plamzi, creator of mudportal.com. The original project had the code of both the client and proxy-server apps, and was outdated and did not support secure connections (wss:// instead of ws://), so I decided to fork it, separate in different projects and update them. But kudos to @plamzi, who is the original author.

Motivation

In modern browsers, web-pages served through https:// are not allowed to open connections to non-secure locations, so an https://-served web could not include a web client which opens a connection using ws://. Modifications were needed to allow secure connections.

Features

• Window-based web UI with draggable and resizable windows, window toolbar.

• MCCP compression support (zlib)

• MXP protocol support built into the client

• MSDP protocol support

• GMCP / ATCP protocol support (JSON) with sample uses in multiple existing plugins

• 256-color support, including background colors

• Unicode font support and UTF-8 negotiation

• Vector-based world mapper with flexible edit mode to allow for mapping any MUD world via exploration

• Triggers / macros / command memory with typeahead

Installation

git clone https://github.com/maldorne/mud-web-client
npm install

• Copy all files to a web-accessible folder on your web server.

• Point a browser at the root of the folder to load the included index.html file.

Configuration

In src/config.js you can change the following options, among others:

  debug: param('debug') || 0,
  host: param('host') || 'muds.maldorne.org',
  port: param('port') || '5010',
  name: param('name') || 'House of Maldorne',
  ...
  proxy: 'wss://play.maldorne.org:6200/',
  ...

These are the default values used when the client does not receive specific parameters. You have to specify:

• host: Your hostname. localhost or 127.0.0.1 don't seem to work: see conversation here.
• port: The port where the mud is running. The mud, not the proxy.
• proxy: The wss url where the proxy is running.