glowing bear
WeeChat web frontend
Connection error The client was unable to connect to the WeeChat relay
Configuring the relay
To start using glowing bear, please enable the relay plugin in your WeeChat client:
The communication goes directly between your browser and your WeeChat relay in plain text. Check the instructions below for help on setting up encrypted communication. Connection settings, including your password, are saved locally in your own browser between sessions.
/set relay.network.password yourpassword /relay add weechat 9001WeeChat version 0.4.2 or higher is required.
The communication goes directly between your browser and your WeeChat relay in plain text. Check the instructions below for help on setting up encrypted communication. Connection settings, including your password, are saved locally in your own browser between sessions.
Shortcuts
Glowing Bear has a few shortcuts:- ALT-n: Toggle nicklist
- ALT-l: Focus on input bar
- ALT-[0-9]: Focus on buffer
- ALT-a: Focus on next buffer with activity
- ALT-<: Switch to previous buffer
- ALT-g: Focus on buffer list filter
- escape: disconnect
- arrow keys: history navigation
If you check the encryption box, the communication between browser and WeeChat will be encrypted.
Note: Due to a bug encryption will not work in Firefox. Unless you are using a certificate trusted by your browser, you must also first visit the URL https://weechathost:relayport/ to mark the certificate as trusted. If you want to use an encrypted session you first have to set up the relay to use SSL. It is easiest to use a self-signed certificate, which you can create like this:
Note: Due to a bug encryption will not work in Firefox. Unless you are using a certificate trusted by your browser, you must also first visit the URL https://weechathost:relayport/ to mark the certificate as trusted. If you want to use an encrypted session you first have to set up the relay to use SSL. It is easiest to use a self-signed certificate, which you can create like this:
$ mkdir -p ~/.weechat/ssl $ cd ~/.weechat/ssl $ openssl req -nodes -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout relay.pem -x509 -days 365 -out relay.pemIf WeeChat is already running, you can reload the certificate and private key and set up an encrypted relay on port 8000 with these commands:
/relay sslcertkey /relay add ssl.weechat 8000
If you have a recent version of Firefox you can install glowing bear as an app. Click the button to install.
Glowing bear is built by a small group of developers in their free time. As we're always trying to improve it, we would love getting your feedback and help. If that sounds like something you might enjoy, check out our project page on GitHub!
If you're interested in contributing or simply want to say hello, head over to #glowing-bear on freenode! We won't bite, promise (-ish).