What IRC client{s} do you use?

I've been using ChatZilla for years but recently found AdiIRC and I'm really loving it. But what IRC client{s} do you guys use?

 

I'm a long standing mIRC user, although my license is younger than my use of mIRC with all the trials I used before deciding to purchase a license. I've never had the chance to use it as much as I've wanted, with IRC not being a part of most of the places I frequented. I'm trying to find a way to get mIRC to connect to chatango and use mIRC instead of the browser window, but my attempts to do so have ended in failure. lol

 

Wow mIRC is still around.? I remember a long time ago on my Dreamcast someone on the SegaNET's IRC server got me and my friends to download that but after the 30 days we went back to the Dreamcast lol. I'm pretty sure that Pidgin might connect to chatango?

 

Yep, mIRC is still around and just recently (April 15th, 2017) released another update. $20 for a lifetime license to use mIRC isn't really that bad.

I just need to figure out how to use sockets with Chatango and work with Chatango's protocols to read/write clean messages to/from mIRC. I've got the socket part down and can receive text from Chatango, but it's all garbled. I've tried connecting via port 80, but it sends back a 400 (Bad Request) error because Chatango was sent a "request that this server didn't understand" which is understandable considering mIRC thinks it's connecting to an IRC server, not a webchat hosted by a web server (ex: Apache). Sadly, my knowledge is more in PHP, HTML, and CSS with a bit of C#. Using sockets to create a connection on port 80 is the easy part. Creating a script for mIRC to filter the garbled text and be able to send text from mIRC to chatango's server is another. There's that whole login issue as well, getting logged in, stay logged in etc. A bit beyond my abilities right now. I was hoping something already existed that I can just copy/paste or load into mIRC, but the furthest someone got was getting garbled text from Flash. I managed to modify the code to connect to the actual page that Chatango uses in an iFrame, but I got an excessive amount of garbled lines of text (100+) that just kept increasing the longer it went on and the only way to stop it was to kill mIRC via Task Manager. lol

 

$20 is really cheap for something like this.

Same, I only know how to code websites, web-apps and server side stuff.

I've looked up some protocols but the only real info I got was from this http://forums.miranda-im.org/showthread.php?24966-Chatango-Protocol it's kinda old.