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**'''^[√]''' Extract Django session data from database  

**'''^[√]''' Create new "chat session" ID cookie  

**'''^[√]''' Retrieve chat permissions from database  

**'''^[√]''' Add authentication check (against stored session) to each page load  

**'''^[√]''' Automatically authenticate user upon first load of chat system, if logged in. Otherwise, redirect them to the login.

**'''^[√]''' Build "Message" object that will contain all of the important message data and serialize it into a json object  

**'''^[√]''' Create a "Room" object that will allow both 1-on-1 and multi-user conversations to be initialized.  

**'''^[√]''' Guests should only be allowed in one room at a time?  

**'''^[√]''' How to hash room names/keep them private?  

**'''^[√]''' /message -> allow users to create new Message objects with data  

**'''^[√]''' Add filtering for messages that will strip any potentially-harmful data (<tags>, etc.)  

**'''^[√]''' Add CSRF verification.  

**'''^[√]''' /listen -> add listener for new Message objects using long polling

**'''^[√]''' Allow authorized users (check perms) to join 1-on-1 rooms  

**'''^[√]''' Messages in rooms should be broadcast to all users  

**'''^{[ ]}''' Watchers should not be allowed to speak in rooms  

**'''^{[ ]}''' Add ability to pass conversations to other users  

**'''^{[ ]}''' Agent interface as reference implementation

**'''^{[ ]}''' Guest interface as reference implementation  

**'''^{[ ]}''' Multiuser rooms should have their own set of user permissions? (Op/H-Op?)  

**'''^{[ ]}''' Add ability to kick users from chatrooms. Ban?

**'''^{[ ]}''' Allow guests that are ''not'' authenticated to join the support queue.  

**'''^{[ ]}''' Setting and updating a user's status  

**'''^{[ ]}''' Agent-Agent private chat

**'''^{[ ]}''' Message/conversation data needs to be logged somewhere

**'''^{[ ]}''' Chat queue status (queue positioning/time estimate)

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