FlashSocket transport is being deprecated?

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Ignacio Burgueño

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May 30, 2011, 6:43:17 PM5/30/11
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Hi. I saw the recent commits on Socket.IO development branch, and I saw that flash sockets have been removed (although they're still mentioned in the readme). If it is indeed being removed, why is that? Is it too much trouble to mantain?

I ask that because that transport is the one that performs reliably for my use cases (on browsers other than Chrome).

Regards,
Ignacio

Guillermo Rauch

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May 30, 2011, 8:14:23 PM5/30/11
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It's not deprecated, but it's not gonna be a "default". 
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Ignacio Burgueño

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May 30, 2011, 8:26:38 PM5/30/11
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Uhm, I don't understand what that means... Is it that if you want it, you have to request it explicitly from the client?

Guillermo Rauch

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May 30, 2011, 8:59:09 PM5/30/11
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If you want it, you specially include it on the server:

io.set('transports', ['websocket', 'flashsocket']);

That's all.

Ignacio Burgueño

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May 30, 2011, 9:20:41 PM5/30/11
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Sorry to nag, but I can't find flashsocket.js or similar anywhere. How would you include it?

Arnout Kazemier

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May 31, 2011, 3:07:22 AM5/31/11
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You have to remember that it's a development branch, so it's not done yet.

Ignacio Burgueño

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May 31, 2011, 7:45:21 AM5/31/11
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Aha, ok. Got it.

Thanks!

Guillermo Rauch

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May 31, 2011, 8:28:28 AM5/31/11
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The approach I'm leaning towards is having people include


if you need flash, and otherwise the default /socket.io/socket.io.js doesn't include it. 

Guillermo Rauch

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May 31, 2011, 9:13:18 AM5/31/11
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Sure, I'm down for that, but I think we still need a way of selectively serving clients.
For example, if you're writing a jQuery mobile frontend to your app, you only want to serve polling and websocket. 

On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Arnout Kazemier wrote:

Instead of generating just a custom build for socket.io-flash we might as well leverage the new build system that I created which can generate different Socket.IO clients on the fly. 

It would require minimal changes to the code base and it would become allow more powerful as you can also just generate a build with only WebSocket and FlashSockets if you set the transports on the server side to "websocket" and "flashsocket"

Arnout Kazemier

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May 31, 2011, 9:33:38 AM5/31/11
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Sure, that would be possible when we incorporate the build system. We could check file names.. 

for example:

socket.io.websocket.flashsocket.xhr-polling.js

or url params
socket.io.js?tranports=flashsocket,websocket,xhr-polling

etc

Arnout Kazemier

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May 31, 2011, 9:10:19 AM5/31/11
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Instead of generating just a custom build for socket.io-flash we might as well leverage the new build system that I created which can generate different Socket.IO clients on the fly. 

It would require minimal changes to the code base and it would become allow more powerful as you can also just generate a build with only WebSocket and FlashSockets if you set the transports on the server side to "websocket" and "flashsocket"

On May 31, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Guillermo Rauch wrote:

Chris McKenzie

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May 31, 2011, 4:31:10 PM5/31/11
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Hi Guillermo!


About loading libraries, are you familiar with http://requirejs.org/ or other similar projects? This may be a good application of it.

Best Wishes!
~chris.

Chris Dew

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Jun 2, 2011, 9:43:48 AM6/2/11
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Browserify http://substack.net/posts/24ab8c is excellent too.

All the best,

Chris.

On May 31, 9:31 pm, Chris McKenzie <ch...@oblong.com> wrote:
> Hi Guillermo!
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> About loading libraries, are you familiar withhttp://requirejs.org/or other similar projects? This may be a good application of it.
>
> Best Wishes!
> ~chris.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Guillermo Rauch" <rau...@gmail.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 5:28:28 AM
> Subject: Re: FlashSocket transport is being deprecated?
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> The approach I'm leaning towards is having people include
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> <script src="/socket.io/socket.io-flash.js">
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> if you need flash, and otherwise the default /socket.io/socket.io.js doesn't include it.
> --
> Guillermo Rauchhttp://devthought.comhttp://learnboost.com
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> On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Ignacio Burgueño wrote:
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> Aha, ok. Got it.
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> Thanks!
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