[erlang-questions] WebSocket impl for Mochiweb

[Dave Bryson]

Like many others, the WebSocket bug bit me. So I've implemented a
little add on for Mochiweb. Basically the module wraps the
mochiweb_socket_server and allows you to write WebSocket based apps
similar to how you'd write a regular web application in Mochiweb.
Here's an example from the source code:

-module(basic_websocket).
-export([start/1, stop/0, loop/1]).

start(Options) ->
Loop = fun (WebSocket) ->
?MODULE:loop(WebSocket)
end,
mochiweb_websocket:start([{name, ?MODULE}, {loop, Loop} |
Options]).

stop() ->
mochiweb_websocket:stop(?MODULE).

loop(WebSocket) ->
%% Get the data sent from the client
Data = WebSocket:get_data(),

%% This is a little echo service. The "client-connected" is just
our implementation
%% for this example. See priv/www/index.html
case Data of
"client-connected" ->
WebSocket:send("You are connected!");
%% Other messages go here
Other ->
Msg = "You Said: " ++ Other,
WebSocket:send(Msg)
end.

You can find the source here: http://github.com/davebryson/erlang_websocket

This is just a quick bit of code, but it seems to work fine for
playing around.

Dave

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[Joe Armstrong]

Sweet. You have a nice way of encapsulating the interface in a Fun.

Now all we need is a javascript IRC client that talks web-sockets
and a server that understands the IRC protocol, and a backend based on a DHT
(like riak) and we have a high scalable robust p2p architecture for
chat/whatever !!!

I can contribute a IRC server that is pretty basic (it's almost done)

Just need riak integration and a javascript client.

/Joe