[ANN] node-websocket-server 1.3.00 released

[Micheil Smith]

Hi all,

I found out today that there are actually a fair few people using my websocket server, and after talking with those people, I give you 1.3.00, which includes some things that I felt were missing or had been requested.

Changelog:
- Added Connection.broadcast, which sends to all connected clients, except the sending client.
- Renamed Connection._id to Connection.id, to be consistent with the Manager's naming.
- Modified echo-server example to also serve up the client.html by default.
- Added the ability to pass in a http.Server instance into ws.createServer() or new ws.Server() as the second parameter.
- Switched to framing packets with \x00 and \xff instead of \u0000 and \uffff.
- Switched to using Array.isArray for checking if a variable is an array, as it's much cleaner and faster then a typeof check.
- Fixed issue #7 with the dead connections hanging around or a connection being wrongfully deleted.
- Added support for the broken head case, even though this is actually against current spec, it may be changed.

This version can be installed via NPM with:

npm install websocket-server

Or you can get it off github.com: http://github.com/miksago/node-websocket-server/tree/v1.3.00

Yours,
Micheil Smith
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[Marak Squires]

Nice Micheil!

Glad to see you supporting this, keep up the great work!

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[Jonathan Chetwynd]

Micheil & others,

is there a test suite for websockets, beyond browser support: http://html5test.com/

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd

I have plenty of cross-browser reduced testcase experience filing SVG
bugs,
which I find useful for understanding implementations, edge cases,
standards errata etc.

I'm about ready to start on web sockets, and would benefit from any
current examples,
and might even write a few ~:"

[Peter Griess]

There are some tests in http://github.com/pgriess/node-websocket-client. These aren't particularly comprehensive and are targeted at http://github.com/miksago/node-websocket-server but might be a reasonable starting point.

In any event, I think node-websocket-client would be a useful building block. It doesn't currently expose much of the internals to its users (e.g. to test busted handshaking of various varieties), but I'm open to changing this if people want to start using it as a general tool for testing WS servers.

Peter