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WebSocket: Lightweight Client-Server Communications by Andrew Lombardi

By Andrew Lombardi

Till lately, developing desktop-like purposes within the browser intended utilizing inefficient Ajax or Comet applied sciences to speak with the server. With this sensible consultant, you’ll tips on how to use WebSocket, a protocol that permits the customer and server to speak with one another on a unmarried connection at the same time. not more asynchronous conversation or lengthy polling!

For builders with a great grab of JavaScript (and possibly Node.js), writer Andrew Lombardi presents beneficial hands-on examples in the course of the ebook that can assist you wake up to hurry with the WebSocket API. You’ll additionally easy methods to use WebSocket with delivery Layer protection (TLS).

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You’ll create several files to build a real working table of stock prices powered by STOMP over WebSocket. html The frontend code base; as before, copy the template used in Chapter 1. js The WebSocket proxy that talks to RabbitMQ using AMQP while listening for STOMP over WebSocket. js A convenience library you’ll build for sending and receiving STOMP requests. js A daemon that pulls stocks from Yahoo Finance by using YQL and pulls and pushes messages to RabbitMQ. Implementing STOMP STOMP is a simple text protocol that is similar to the HTTP convention of an upper‐ case command such as CONNECT, followed by a list of header key/value pairs, and then optional content, which in the case of STOMP is null-terminated.

Only WebSocket removes that overhead and gives you a socket that is full-duplex, bidirectional, and ready to rock ‘n’ roll. In the next chapter you’ll take a look at a popular protocol for layering on top of WebSocket, to provide transport without the overhead of HTTP. 34 | Chapter 3: Bidirectional Chat CHAPTER 4 STOMP over WebSocket In previous chapters you built simple applications using the WebSocket API both on the server side and on the client. You built a multiclient chat application with Web‐ Socket as the communication layer.

Close(); Optionally, you can pass a numeric code and a human-readable reason through the close() method. This gives some indication to the server as to why the connection was closed on the client end. The following code shows how to pass those values. Note that if you don’t pass a code, the status 1000 is assumed, which means CLOSE_NORMAL: // Close the WebSocket connection with reason. "); Table 2-2 lists the status codes you can use in the WebSocket close() method. Table 2-2. WebSocket close codes Status code Name 0–999 Description Reserved and not used.

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