jeromeetienne / easywebsocket

like Websocket but no server setup and available in any browser

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Easy WebSocket

like WebSocket but no server setup and available in any browser

EasyWebSocket aims to make realtimes webapps in every browser without the trouble to setup Websocket servers.

How to use it

Include the following in your webpage and it just works.

<script src="http://EasyWebsocket.org/easyWebSocket.min.js"></script>	
<script>
    var socket = new EasyWebSocket("ws://example.com/resource");
    socket.onopen	= function(){
        socket.send("hello world.")
    }
    socket.onmessage= function(event){
        alert("received"+ event.data)
    }
</script>

Step 1: You connect the socket to a given url

Step 2: What you send() thru this socket is sent to all sockets connected the same url

See this code live. No server setup, no cross-origin issue to care about... It is that easy!

easywebsocket's Issues

Problem with http secure

In file "easywebsocket.min.js" it has been configured the websocket server

->EasyWebSocket.serverUrl = "http://88.191.76.230:8950";

but if your aplication it´s running in a secure context (https) , socket.io can´t establish a connection.

The connection was interrupted while the page was loading.

I've been using your fantastic library for a few months. Recently though, my connection started to fail after a few seconds (~23s), or when I send something. It started around this christmas, but I haven't had time to look into it until now.

Firefox, (firebug) reports:
"
The connection to ws://88.191.76.230:8950/socket.io/1/websocket/18883451342134888172 was interrupted while the page was loading.

...this,e;e||(e=window.MozWebSocket||window.WebSocket);this.websocket=new e(this.pr... at: easyWe....min.js (line 43)
"
Chrome fails silently after the same amount of time.

This is the code I am using: this._connection = new EasyWebSocket("ws://students.info.uaic.ro/~tudor.berechet/index.xhtml");
So it is not "wss", as it was mentioned in this issue: #5
Sometimes one or two broadcasts make it through, but usually it keeps failing with that error every time I try to send something.

Haven't had time to look at your un-minified code yet.

How to use own websocket server on a http domain like http://myownsocket.com

I am working on a hardware as a websocket client connect to ws://echo.websocket.org and send and receive message. I want to have my own webserver. I have http domain and space but I can not connect when using easywebsocket example. Pleas help
Thank you

Update to Socket.IO 0.8.6

Any chance to update EasyWebsocket to the new release of Socket.IO 0.8.6?

No support for Opera Mobile

As of yesterday, after 17 hours the last change was committed, I was testing EasyWebsocket chat demo on my Nexus One with Android 2.3.6. It works on the native browser, FF and FF Aurora 9.2 alpha, but unfortunately not on Opera Mobile 11.5, which I consider to be the best browser for Android. Sometimes some user login messages and messages are displayed and repeated, but others just dropped.

please help me with client refresh through websocekt

Ok I have a page that is running a web socket with a timer, that on a 15 second interval it sends through the socket the value "refresh", on the client pages I have javascript set up I believe to listen for a send event through the web socket and if the information sent is "refresh" for the clients page to refresh...

the problem is once it has been sent once It holds the event data of refresh and just keeps trying to refresh the page as fast as it can... Ive tried a bunch of different options and at first I thought the page would stop refreshing after some time because the socket does not work, but I traced the socekts send with and alert box as apposed to "run this function" and it seems to work...

server Page:

<script src="easyWebSocket.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> var socket = new EasyWebSocket("ws://localhost/test"); var t; var timer_is_on=0; var interval function startServer(){ interval = setInterval("timedCount()", 15000); } function stopServer(){ clearInterval(interval); } function timeUpdate(){ document.getElementById("servertime").contentWindow.location.reload(); } function timedCount() { timeUpdate(); socket.send("refresh"); } function doTimer() { if (!timer_is_on) { timer_is_on=1; timedCount(); } } </script>

<iframe id=servertime src=timeManager.php></iframe>

CLIENTS PAGE:

<script src="easyWebSocket.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> var socket = new EasyWebSocket("ws://localhost/test"); socket.onmessage = function(event){ if (event.data=="refresh"){ window.location.replace("GUI.php"); } } </script>

Chat demo not working anymore

Chat demo was working yesterday, but not today anymore, neither on my desktop nor Android device.