Just tried socket.io, works great in Chrome....but not in Firefox or IE 8

[Jason B]

I thought I tried the chat example before but it doesn't seem to be
working now.

I did a simple clean install:

git clone git://github.com/LearnBoost/Socket.IO-node.git
cd dir
git submodule init
git submodule update

sudo node example/server.js


When I try this on Firefox or IE I get a "Connecting..." but nothing
ever happens. On Chrome everything works as it should. I even tried
reverting by doing stuff like git checkout 0.5

Do I have to setup a Flash XML file? If so.. maybe I missed the docs
on how to do that, if someone could please point me in the right
direction that would be great.


Thanks,

Jason

[Guillermo Rauch]

This is confusing a lot of people unfortunately. You need to get all the submodules recursively

git submodule update --init --recursive

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[Emerson Macedo]

Installing with npm also fall into this error. I´m not using flashsocket anymore, defing the transports without it.

 

cheers,

 

Emerson

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http://codificando.com

@emerleite

[Floby]

I installed socket.io via npm and I've got this problem too. Is there
a problem in the current package ? The only solution I found was to
use another transport on those browsers.

On Oct 29, 7:47 am, Guillermo Rauch <rau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is confusing a lot of people unfortunately. You need to get all the

> submodules *recursively*

[Emerson Macedo]

As I've mentioned in my previous message, I've passed all transports but flashsocket and it worked as expected. Take a look:

//Server

var socket = io.listen(server, {transports:['websocket', 'htmlfile', 'xhr-multipart', 'xhr-polling']}); 

//Client

var socket = new io.Socket(null, {transports:['websocket', 'htmlfile', 'xhr-multipart', 'xhr-polling']});

[Jason B]

Thanks the recursive flag fixed it :)

I just had an old version of git on my system and the first time I ran that it did not recognize it.

[Emerson Macedo]

Yes, but need a package fix using npm. I'll try to contibute :)

http://nodecats.org

@emerleite