Looking for example of chat app using websockets

[mattw]

Could anyone point me to an example of a Lianja chat app using websockets?

Thanks.

[josipradnik]

Hi,

A chat app was not mentioned here before. Chat server was:

I think the socket method would be more efficient. I guess I could also build a chat server while I'm at it.. Lianja ROCKS!!!!

http://www.lianja.com/community/show...ML5-Client-API

The best sources for socket:
http://www.lianja.com/doc/index.php/...d_Web_Services
https://www.lianja.com/resources/blo...kets-in-lianja

Also some (old) forum discussions:
http://www.lianja.com/community/show...open()-Problem
http://www.lianja.com/community/show...eturns-Nothing
http://www.lianja.com/community/show...anja-for-Linux

Josip

[mattw]

Thanks for the reference links, Josip. I will take some time and look through them.

In my view, websockets have a few advantages over TCP sockets in a chat app. The biggest is receiving communication in complete frames, where as normal TCP sockets don't. Also, they use port 80 / 443, so firewall issues are less likely.

It seems like it would be a fairly easy example app to write using Lianja. It would be great to have an example of this in a future release of the sample apps.

-Matt