A Chat Room System Using a Simple GUI

You will write a chat room system consisting of a server and four client processes. Each client process will connect to the server over a socket connection and register a user name at the server. The server should display the names of the connected clients. From that point, any messages typed at one client should be sent to the server which will relay it to the other connected clients. The operation should be similar to any number of chat room applications. The chat interface should be a very simple GUI: a box to display messages and enter text will suffice. When a client logs onto the server, every client in the system should instantiate a timer to track the interval between messages received from that client. The interval between messages received from that client should be printed along with the message itself. For example: clients A, B, C, and D are connected to a server. If client A send a message “Hello” at time 1:00, then sends message “All you” at time 1:04, and message “listeners” at time 1:05, the output at clients B, C, and D should read something like: A (0:00) – Hello A (0:04) – All you A (0:01) – listeners If a client logs off the other clients should be notified. The server should also display the messages that come through. The messages should use HTTP formats and commands. The HTTP tags must use, at minimum, Host, User-Agent, Content-Type, Content-Length, and Date. If you are polling the server, use GET. If you are sending data to the server, use POST. Your program must operate independently of a browser. Time on the messages should be encoded according to HTTP.