WebSockets in V8

[Ilya Dmitrichenko]

Hello,

As far as I understand V8 has it's own implementation of WS,
can someone explain whether it can be use in a Node app
and how? I do understand that it would probably be only
compatible with Chrome, nevertheless, it would be good to
find out a bit more on this...

Regards,
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Ilya

[Hsu Ping Feng]

I'm not sure but I don't think V8 team will implement a WS functionality in V8 engine. It's simply not a javascript engine's business. Maybe it's a part of Chromium. I think.

It's not hard to implement WS in node. But we already have Socket.IO.

2011/10/13 Ilya Dmitrichenko <errorde...@gmail.com>

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[Micheil Smith]

Please, go read the spec, then Socket.io's code, and then come back to me on that.

On 13 Oct 2011, at 03:24, Hsu Ping Feng wrote:

> It's not hard to implement WS in node. But we already have Socket.IO.

– Micheil.

[Micheil Smith]

Hey Ilya,

V8 doesn't actually have an implementation of WebSockets, this is actually
in WebKit / Chromium.

The most up-to-date module that is just websockets is:

https://github.com/Worlize/WebSocket-Node

However, this only supports one of the drafts, when in reality you need to
support about 5 drafts. There are many efforts in order to do this, Socket.io
does partially implement all the drafts.

Another (combined) effort is node-websocket-protocol (and then by extension
all other websocket servers and clients). However, that project is still very
much just a pipe dream.

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[Ilya Dmitrichenko]

Hello,

Thanks for so many answers guys, I just wasn't quite sure and thoguth
that v8 may as well contain the interface between the os and the browser
and some libs, well I see that you are saying it doesn't do any of that!
As I said, I am aware of how many specs are floating around.

Regards,
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Ilya