Websocket Socketio Rant<\/p>\n
I learned that websocket is not the same as socket.io. While this may seem obvious in hindsight, I wasn’t aware I was using socket.io until I spent a long time trying to figure out why I couldn’t use websocket (ws:\/\/) protocol to connect to my (http:\/\/) server, which used socket.io to handle websocket connections. Socket.io is built on top of the websocket protocol, but also supports old, non-websocket-supporting browsers. I was setting up a simple Python Flask webserver, and was using Flask Socketio. I thought they were one and the same.<\/p>\n
Another thing I found is, as of now (Sept 2017), there are poor support for python socket.io clients. Of about the only two python packages I found to handle socketio, there seems to be many inconsistencies in the library function and I couldn’t predict the behaviour of what it was supposed to do. After many hours of fussing about, I switched to C++ socketio library (sio_client.h). And it works very well, I got it to work quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Websocket Socketio Rant I learned that websocket is not the same as socket.io. While this may seem obvious in hindsight, I wasn’t aware I was using socket.io until I spent a long time trying to figure out why I couldn’t use websocket (ws:\/\/) protocol to connect to my (http:\/\/) server, which used socket.io to handle … Continue reading Websocket Socketio Rant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}