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  • Contributing @@ -154,7 +159,22 @@ webSocket.send("hello world");

    Why another library?

    There are 2 main reasons that explain why IXWebSocket got written. First, we needed a C++ cross-platform client library, which should have few dependencies. What looked like the most solid one, websocketpp did depend on boost and this was not an option for us. Secondly, there were other available libraries with fewer dependencies (C ones), but they required calling an explicit poll routine periodically to know if a client had received data from a server, which was not elegant.

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    We started by solving those 2 problems, then we added server websocket code, then an HTTP client, and finally a very simple HTTP server.

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    We started by solving those 2 problems, then we added server websocket code, then an HTTP client, and finally a very simple HTTP server. IXWebSocket comes with a command line utility named ws which is quite handy, and is now packaged with alpine linux. You can install it with apk add ws.

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    Alternative libraries

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    There are plenty of great websocket libraries out there, which might work for you. Here are a couple of serious ones.

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    Contributing

    IXWebSocket is developed on GitHub. We'd love to hear about how you use it; opening up an issue on GitHub is ok for that. If things don't work as expected, please create an issue on GitHub, or even better a pull request if you know how to fix your problem.

    @@ -240,5 +260,5 @@ webSocket.send("hello world"); diff --git a/search/search_index.json b/search/search_index.json index 44d52e3c..3476f582 100644 --- a/search/search_index.json +++ b/search/search_index.json @@ -1 +1 @@ -{"config":{"lang":["en"],"prebuild_index":false,"separator":"[\\s\\-]+"},"docs":[{"location":"","text":"Introduction WebSocket is a computer communications protocol, providing full-duplex and bi-directionnal communication channels over a single TCP connection. IXWebSocket is a C++ library for client and server Websocket communication, and for client and server HTTP communication. TLS aka SSL is supported. The code is derived from easywsclient and from the Satori C SDK . 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This library has few dependencies, so it is possible to just add the source files into your project. Otherwise the usual way will suffice. mkdir build # make a build dir so that you can build out of tree. cd build cmake -DUSE_TLS=1 .. make -j make install # will install to /usr/local on Unix, on macOS it is a good idea to sudo chown -R `whoami`:staff /usr/local Headers and a static library will be installed to the target dir. There is a unittest which can be executed by typing make test . Options for building: -DUSE_TLS=1 will enable TLS support -DUSE_MBED_TLS=1 will use mbedlts for the TLS support (default on Windows) -DUSE_WS=1 will build the ws interactive command line tool If you are on Windows, look at the appveyor file that has instructions for building dependencies. 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It is also available on the docker registry. docker run bsergean/ws To use docker-compose you must make a docker container first. $ make docker ... $ docker compose up & ... $ docker exec -it ixwebsocket_ws_1 bash app@ca2340eb9106:~$ ws --help ws is a websocket tool ...","title":"Build"},{"location":"build/#build","text":"","title":"Build"},{"location":"build/#cmake","text":"CMakefiles for the library and the examples are available. This library has few dependencies, so it is possible to just add the source files into your project. Otherwise the usual way will suffice. mkdir build # make a build dir so that you can build out of tree. cd build cmake -DUSE_TLS=1 .. make -j make install # will install to /usr/local on Unix, on macOS it is a good idea to sudo chown -R `whoami`:staff /usr/local Headers and a static library will be installed to the target dir. There is a unittest which can be executed by typing make test . 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You can run redis-cli MONITOR too to see how redis is being used. Server You will need to have a redis server running locally. To run the server: $ cd /ixsnake/ixsnake $ ws snake { \"apps\": { \"FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f\": { \"roles\": { \"_sub\": { \"secret\": \"66B1dA3ED5fA074EB5AE84Dd8CE3b5ba\" }, \"_pub\": { \"secret\": \"1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db\" } } } } } redis host: 127.0.0.1 redis password: redis port: 6379 Publisher $ cd /ws $ ws cobra_publish --appkey FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f --endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:8008 --rolename _pub --rolesecret 1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db test_channel cobraMetricsSample.json [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Publisher connected [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Connection: Upgrade [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Accept: zTtQKMKbvwjdivURplYXwCVUCWM= [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Server: ixwebsocket/7.4.0 macos ssl/DarwinSSL zlib 1.2.11 [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Upgrade: websocket [2019-11-27 09:06:12.982] [info] Publisher authenticated [2019-11-27 09:06:12.982] [info] Published msg 3 [2019-11-27 09:06:12.982] [info] Published message id 3 acked Subscriber $ ws cobra_subscribe --appkey FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f --endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:8008 --rolename _pub --rolesecret 1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db test_channel #messages 0 msg/s 0 [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Subscriber connected [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Connection: Upgrade [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Accept: 9vkQWofz49qMCUlTSptCCwHWm+Q= [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Server: ixwebsocket/7.4.0 macos ssl/DarwinSSL zlib 1.2.11 [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Upgrade: websocket [2019-11-27 09:07:39.342] [info] Subscriber authenticated [2019-11-27 09:07:39.345] [info] Subscriber: subscribed to channel test_channel #messages 0 msg/s 0 #messages 0 msg/s 0 #messages 0 msg/s 0 {\"baz\":123,\"foo\":\"bar\"} #messages 1 msg/s 1 #messages 1 msg/s 0 #messages 1 msg/s 0 {\"baz\":123,\"foo\":\"bar\"} {\"baz\":123,\"foo\":\"bar\"} #messages 3 msg/s 2 #messages 3 msg/s 0 {\"baz\":123,\"foo\":\"bar\"} #messages 4 msg/s 1 ^C","title":"Cobra"},{"location":"cobra/#general","text":"cobra is a real time messaging server. The ws utility can run a cobra server (named snake), and has client to publish and subscribe to a cobra server. Bring up 3 terminals and run a server, a publisher and a subscriber in each one. As you publish data you should see it being received by the subscriber. You can run redis-cli MONITOR too to see how redis is being used.","title":"General"},{"location":"cobra/#server","text":"You will need to have a redis server running locally. To run the server: $ cd /ixsnake/ixsnake $ ws snake { \"apps\": { \"FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f\": { \"roles\": { \"_sub\": { \"secret\": \"66B1dA3ED5fA074EB5AE84Dd8CE3b5ba\" }, \"_pub\": { \"secret\": \"1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db\" } } } } } redis host: 127.0.0.1 redis password: redis port: 6379","title":"Server"},{"location":"cobra/#publisher","text":"$ cd /ws $ ws cobra_publish --appkey FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f --endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:8008 --rolename _pub --rolesecret 1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db test_channel cobraMetricsSample.json [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Publisher connected [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Connection: Upgrade [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Accept: zTtQKMKbvwjdivURplYXwCVUCWM= [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Server: ixwebsocket/7.4.0 macos ssl/DarwinSSL zlib 1.2.11 [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Upgrade: websocket [2019-11-27 09:06:12.982] [info] Publisher authenticated [2019-11-27 09:06:12.982] [info] Published msg 3 [2019-11-27 09:06:12.982] [info] Published message id 3 acked","title":"Publisher"},{"location":"cobra/#subscriber","text":"$ ws cobra_subscribe --appkey FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f --endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:8008 --rolename _pub --rolesecret 1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db test_channel #messages 0 msg/s 0 [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Subscriber connected [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Connection: Upgrade [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Accept: 9vkQWofz49qMCUlTSptCCwHWm+Q= [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Server: ixwebsocket/7.4.0 macos ssl/DarwinSSL zlib 1.2.11 [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Upgrade: websocket [2019-11-27 09:07:39.342] [info] Subscriber authenticated [2019-11-27 09:07:39.345] [info] Subscriber: subscribed to channel test_channel #messages 0 msg/s 0 #messages 0 msg/s 0 #messages 0 msg/s 0 {\"baz\":123,\"foo\":\"bar\"} #messages 1 msg/s 1 #messages 1 msg/s 0 #messages 1 msg/s 0 {\"baz\":123,\"foo\":\"bar\"} {\"baz\":123,\"foo\":\"bar\"} #messages 3 msg/s 2 #messages 3 msg/s 0 {\"baz\":123,\"foo\":\"bar\"} #messages 4 msg/s 1 ^C","title":"Subscriber"},{"location":"design/","text":"Implementation details Per Message Deflate compression. The per message deflate compression option is supported. It can lead to very nice bandbwith savings (20x !) if your messages are similar, which is often the case for example for chat applications. All features of the spec should be supported. TLS/SSL Connections can be optionally secured and encrypted with TLS/SSL when using a wss:// endpoint, or using normal un-encrypted socket with ws:// endpoints. AppleSSL is used on iOS and macOS, OpenSSL and mbedTLS can be used on Android, Linux and Windows. Polling and background thread work No manual polling to fetch data is required. Data is sent and received instantly by using a background thread for receiving data and the select system call to be notified by the OS of incoming data. No timeout is used for select so that the background thread is only woken up when data is available, to optimize battery life. This is also the recommended way of using select according to the select tutorial, section select law . Read and Writes to the socket are non blocking. Data is sent right away and not enqueued by writing directly to the socket, which is possible since system socket implementations allow concurrent read/writes. However concurrent writes need to be protected with mutex. Automatic reconnection If the remote end (server) breaks the connection, the code will try to perpetually reconnect, by using an exponential backoff strategy, capped at one retry every 10 seconds. This behavior can be disabled. Large messages Large frames are broken up into smaller chunks or messages to avoid filling up the os tcp buffers, which is permitted thanks to WebSocket fragmentation . Messages up to 1G were sent and received succesfully. Testing The library has an interactive tool which is handy for testing compatibility ith other libraries. We have tested our client against Python, Erlang, Node.js, and C++ websocket server libraries. The unittest tries to be comprehensive, and has been running on multiple platforms, with different sanitizers such as a thread sanitizer to catch data races or the undefined behavior sanitizer. The regression test is running after each commit on travis. Limitations On Windows and Android certificate validation needs to be setup so that SocketTLSOptions.caFile point to a pem file, such as the one distributed by Firefox. Unless that setup is done connecting to a wss endpoint will display an error. On Windows with mbedtls the message will contain error in handshake : X509 - Certificate verification failed, e.g. CRL, CA or signature check failed . There is no convenient way to embed a ca cert. Automatic reconnection works at the TCP socket level, and will detect remote end disconnects. However, if the device/computer network become unreachable (by turning off wifi), it is quite hard to reliably and timely detect it at the socket level using recv and send error codes. Here is a good discussion on the subject. This behavior is consistent with other runtimes such as node.js. One way to detect a disconnected device with low level C code is to do a name resolution with DNS but this can be expensive. Mobile devices have good and reliable API to do that. The server code is using select to detect incoming data, and creates one OS thread per connection. This is not as scalable as strategies using epoll or kqueue. C++ code organization Here is a simplistic diagram which explains how the code is structured in term of class/modules. +-----------------------+ --- Public | | Start the receiving Background thread. Auto reconnection. Simple websocket Ping. | IXWebSocket | Interface used by C++ test clients. No IX dependencies. | | +-----------------------+ | | | IXWebSocketServer | Run a server and give each connections its own WebSocket object. | | Each connection is handled in a new OS thread. | | +-----------------------+ --- Private | | | IXWebSocketTransport | Low level websocket code, framing, managing raw socket. Adapted from easywsclient. | | +-----------------------+ | | | IXWebSocketHandshake | Establish the connection between client and server. | | +-----------------------+ | | | IXWebSocket | ws:// Unencrypted Socket handler | IXWebSocketAppleSSL | wss:// TLS encrypted Socket AppleSSL handler. Used on iOS and macOS | IXWebSocketOpenSSL | wss:// TLS encrypted Socket OpenSSL handler. 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However, if the device/computer network become unreachable (by turning off wifi), it is quite hard to reliably and timely detect it at the socket level using recv and send error codes. Here is a good discussion on the subject. This behavior is consistent with other runtimes such as node.js. One way to detect a disconnected device with low level C code is to do a name resolution with DNS but this can be expensive. Mobile devices have good and reliable API to do that. The server code is using select to detect incoming data, and creates one OS thread per connection. This is not as scalable as strategies using epoll or kqueue.","title":"Limitations"},{"location":"design/#c-code-organization","text":"Here is a simplistic diagram which explains how the code is structured in term of class/modules. +-----------------------+ --- Public | | Start the receiving Background thread. Auto reconnection. Simple websocket Ping. | IXWebSocket | Interface used by C++ test clients. No IX dependencies. | | +-----------------------+ | | | IXWebSocketServer | Run a server and give each connections its own WebSocket object. | | Each connection is handled in a new OS thread. | | +-----------------------+ --- Private | | | IXWebSocketTransport | Low level websocket code, framing, managing raw socket. Adapted from easywsclient. | | +-----------------------+ | | | IXWebSocketHandshake | Establish the connection between client and server. | | +-----------------------+ | | | IXWebSocket | ws:// Unencrypted Socket handler | IXWebSocketAppleSSL | wss:// TLS encrypted Socket AppleSSL handler. Used on iOS and macOS | IXWebSocketOpenSSL | wss:// TLS encrypted Socket OpenSSL handler. 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This init would typically take place in your main function. #include int main() { ix::initNetSystem(); ... ix::uninitNetSystem(); return 0; } WebSocket client API #include ... // Our websocket object ix::WebSocket webSocket; std::string url(\"ws://localhost:8080/\"); webSocket.setUrl(url); // Optional heart beat, sent every 45 seconds when there is not any traffic // to make sure that load balancers do not kill an idle connection. webSocket.setHeartBeatPeriod(45); // Per message deflate connection is enabled by default. You can tweak its parameters or disable it webSocket.disablePerMessageDeflate(); // Setup a callback to be fired when a message or an event (open, close, error) is received webSocket.setOnMessageCallback([](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Message) { std::cout << msg->str << std::endl; } } ); // Now that our callback is setup, we can start our background thread and receive messages webSocket.start(); // Send a message to the server (default to TEXT mode) webSocket.send(\"hello world\"); // The message can be sent in BINARY mode (useful if you send MsgPack data for example) webSocket.sendBinary(\"some serialized binary data\"); // ... finally ... // Stop the connection webSocket.stop() Sending messages websocket.send(\"foo\") will send a message. If the connection was closed and sending failed, the return value will be set to false. ReadyState getReadyState() returns the state of the connection. There are 4 possible states. ReadyState::Connecting - The connection is not yet open. ReadyState::Open - The connection is open and ready to communicate. ReadyState::Closing - The connection is in the process of closing. ReadyState::Closed - The connection is closed or could not be opened. Open and Close notifications The onMessage event will be fired when the connection is opened or closed. This is similar to the JavaScript browser API , which has open and close events notification that can be registered with the browser addEventListener . webSocket.setOnMessageCallback([](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Open) { std::cout << \"send greetings\" << std::endl; // Headers can be inspected (pairs of string/string) std::cout << \"Handshake Headers:\" << std::endl; for (auto it : msg->headers) { std::cout << it.first << \": \" << it.second << std::endl; } } else if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Close) { std::cout << \"disconnected\" << std::endl; // The server can send an explicit code and reason for closing. // This data can be accessed through the closeInfo object. std::cout << msg->closeInfo.code << std::endl; std::cout << msg->closeInfo.reason << std::endl; } } ); Error notification A message will be fired when there is an error with the connection. The message type will be ix::WebSocketMessageType::Error . Multiple fields will be available on the event to describe the error. webSocket.setOnMessageCallback([](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Error) { std::stringstream ss; ss << \"Error: \" << msg->errorInfo.reason << std::endl; ss << \"#retries: \" << msg->eventInfo.retries << std::endl; ss << \"Wait time(ms): \" << msg->eventInfo.wait_time << std::endl; ss << \"HTTP Status: \" << msg->eventInfo.http_status << std::endl; std::cout << ss.str() << std::endl; } } ); start, stop websocket.start() connect to the remote server and starts the message receiving background thread. websocket.stop() disconnect from the remote server and closes the background thread. Configuring the remote url The url can be set and queried after a websocket object has been created. You will have to call stop and start if you want to disconnect and connect to that new url. std::string url(\"wss://example.com\"); websocket.configure(url); Ping/Pong support Ping/pong messages are used to implement keep-alive. 2 message types exists to identify ping and pong messages. Note that when a ping message is received, a pong is instantly send back as requested by the WebSocket spec. webSocket.setOnMessageCallback([](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Ping || msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Pong) { std::cout << \"pong data: \" << msg->str << std::endl; } } ); A ping message can be sent to the server, with an optional data string. websocket.ping(\"ping data, optional (empty string is ok): limited to 125 bytes long\"); Heartbeat. You can configure an optional heart beat / keep-alive, sent every 45 seconds when there is no any traffic to make sure that load balancers do not kill an idle connection. webSocket.setHeartBeatPeriod(45); Supply extra HTTP headers. You can set extra HTTP headers to be sent during the WebSocket handshake. WebSocketHttpHeaders headers; headers[\"foo\"] = \"bar\"; webSocket.setExtraHeaders(headers); Subprotocols You can specify subprotocols to be set during the WebSocket handshake. For more info you can refer to this doc . webSocket.addSubprotocol(\"appProtocol-v1\"); webSocket.addSubprotocol(\"appProtocol-v2\"); The protocol that the server did accept is available in the open info protocol field. std::cout << \"protocol: \" << msg->openInfo.protocol << std::endl; Automatic reconnection Automatic reconnection kicks in when the connection is disconnected without the user consent. This feature is on by default and can be turned off. webSocket.enableAutomaticReconnection(); // turn on webSocket.disableAutomaticReconnection(); // turn off bool enabled = webSocket.isAutomaticReconnectionEnabled(); // query state The technique to calculate wait time is called exponential backoff . Here are the default waiting times between attempts (from connecting with ws connect ws://foo.com ) > Connection error: Got bad status connecting to foo.com, status: 301, HTTP Status line: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently #retries: 1 Wait time(ms): 100 #retries: 2 Wait time(ms): 200 #retries: 3 Wait time(ms): 400 #retries: 4 Wait time(ms): 800 #retries: 5 Wait time(ms): 1600 #retries: 6 Wait time(ms): 3200 #retries: 7 Wait time(ms): 6400 #retries: 8 Wait time(ms): 10000 The waiting time is capped by default at 10s between 2 attempts, but that value can be changed and queried. webSocket.setMaxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries(5 * 1000); // 5000ms = 5s uint32_t m = webSocket.getMaxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries(); WebSocket server API #include ... // Run a server on localhost at a given port. // Bound host name, max connections and listen backlog can also be passed in as parameters. ix::WebSocketServer server(port); server.setOnConnectionCallback( [&server](std::shared_ptr webSocket, std::shared_ptr connectionState) { webSocket->setOnMessageCallback( [webSocket, connectionState, &server](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Open) { std::cerr << \"New connection\" << std::endl; // A connection state object is available, and has a default id // You can subclass ConnectionState and pass an alternate factory // to override it. It is useful if you want to store custom // attributes per connection (authenticated bool flag, attributes, etc...) std::cerr << \"id: \" << connectionState->getId() << std::endl; // The uri the client did connect to. std::cerr << \"Uri: \" << msg->openInfo.uri << std::endl; std::cerr << \"Headers:\" << std::endl; for (auto it : msg->openInfo.headers) { std::cerr << it.first << \": \" << it.second << std::endl; } } else if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Message) { // For an echo server, we just send back to the client whatever was received by the server // All connected clients are available in an std::set. See the broadcast cpp example. // Second parameter tells whether we are sending the message in binary or text mode. // Here we send it in the same mode as it was received. webSocket->send(msg->str, msg->binary); } } ); } ); auto res = server.listen(); if (!res.first) { // Error handling return 1; } // Run the server in the background. Server can be stoped by calling server.stop() server.start(); // Block until server.stop() is called. server.wait(); HTTP client API #include ... // // Preparation // HttpClient httpClient; HttpRequestArgsPtr args = httpClient.createRequest(); // Custom headers can be set WebSocketHttpHeaders headers; headers[\"Foo\"] = \"bar\"; args->extraHeaders = headers; // Timeout options args->connectTimeout = connectTimeout; args->transferTimeout = transferTimeout; // Redirect options args->followRedirects = followRedirects; args->maxRedirects = maxRedirects; // Misc args->compress = compress; // Enable gzip compression args->verbose = verbose; args->logger = [](const std::string& msg) { std::cout << msg; }; // // Synchronous Request // HttpResponsePtr out; std::string url = \"https://www.google.com\"; // HEAD request out = httpClient.head(url, args); // GET request out = httpClient.get(url, args); // POST request with parameters HttpParameters httpParameters; httpParameters[\"foo\"] = \"bar\"; out = httpClient.post(url, httpParameters, args); // POST request with a body out = httpClient.post(url, std::string(\"foo=bar\"), args); // // Result // auto statusCode = response->statusCode; // Can be HttpErrorCode::Ok, HttpErrorCode::UrlMalformed, etc... auto errorCode = response->errorCode; // 200, 404, etc... auto responseHeaders = response->headers; // All the headers in a special case-insensitive unordered_map of (string, string) auto payload = response->payload; // All the bytes from the response as an std::string auto errorMsg = response->errorMsg; // Descriptive error message in case of failure auto uploadSize = response->uploadSize; // Byte count of uploaded data auto downloadSize = response->downloadSize; // Byte count of downloaded data // // Asynchronous Request // bool async = true; HttpClient httpClient(async); auto args = httpClient.createRequest(url, HttpClient::kGet); // Push the request to a queue, bool ok = httpClient.performRequest(args, [](const HttpResponsePtr& response) { // This callback execute in a background thread. Make sure you uses appropriate protection such as mutex auto statusCode = response->statusCode; // acess results } ); // ok will be false if your httpClient is not async HTTP server API #include ix::HttpServer server(port, hostname); auto res = server.listen(); if (!res.first) { std::cerr << res.second << std::endl; return 1; } server.start(); server.wait(); If you want to handle how requests are processed, implement the setOnConnectionCallback callback, which takes an HttpRequestPtr as input, and returns an HttpResponsePtr. You can look at HttpServer::setDefaultConnectionCallback for a slightly more advanced callback example. setOnConnectionCallback( [this](HttpRequestPtr request, std::shared_ptr /*connectionState*/) -> HttpResponsePtr { // Build a string for the response std::stringstream ss; ss << request->method << \" \" << request->uri; std::string content = ss.str(); return std::make_shared(200, \"OK\", HttpErrorCode::Ok, WebSocketHttpHeaders(), content); } TLS support and configuration To leverage TLS features, the library must be compiled with the option USE_TLS=1 . Then, secure sockets are automatically used when connecting to a wss://* url. Additional TLS options can be configured by passing a ix::SocketTLSOptions instance to the setTLSOptions on ix::WebSocket (or ix::WebSocketServer or ix::HttpServer ) webSocket.setTLSOptions({ .certFile = \"path/to/cert/file.pem\", .keyFile = \"path/to/key/file.pem\", .caFile = \"path/to/trust/bundle/file.pem\", .tls = true // required in server mode }); Specifying certFile and keyFile configures the certificate that will be used to communicate with TLS peers. On a client, this is only necessary for connecting to servers that require a client certificate. On a server, this is necessary for TLS support. 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You can tweak its parameters or disable it webSocket.disablePerMessageDeflate(); // Setup a callback to be fired when a message or an event (open, close, error) is received webSocket.setOnMessageCallback([](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Message) { std::cout << msg->str << std::endl; } } ); // Now that our callback is setup, we can start our background thread and receive messages webSocket.start(); // Send a message to the server (default to TEXT mode) webSocket.send(\"hello world\"); // The message can be sent in BINARY mode (useful if you send MsgPack data for example) webSocket.sendBinary(\"some serialized binary data\"); // ... finally ... // Stop the connection webSocket.stop()","title":"WebSocket client API"},{"location":"usage/#sending-messages","text":"websocket.send(\"foo\") will send a message. 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This is similar to the JavaScript browser API , which has open and close events notification that can be registered with the browser addEventListener . webSocket.setOnMessageCallback([](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Open) { std::cout << \"send greetings\" << std::endl; // Headers can be inspected (pairs of string/string) std::cout << \"Handshake Headers:\" << std::endl; for (auto it : msg->headers) { std::cout << it.first << \": \" << it.second << std::endl; } } else if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Close) { std::cout << \"disconnected\" << std::endl; // The server can send an explicit code and reason for closing. // This data can be accessed through the closeInfo object. std::cout << msg->closeInfo.code << std::endl; std::cout << msg->closeInfo.reason << std::endl; } } );","title":"Open and Close notifications"},{"location":"usage/#error-notification","text":"A message will be fired when there is an error with the connection. The message type will be ix::WebSocketMessageType::Error . Multiple fields will be available on the event to describe the error. webSocket.setOnMessageCallback([](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Error) { std::stringstream ss; ss << \"Error: \" << msg->errorInfo.reason << std::endl; ss << \"#retries: \" << msg->eventInfo.retries << std::endl; ss << \"Wait time(ms): \" << msg->eventInfo.wait_time << std::endl; ss << \"HTTP Status: \" << msg->eventInfo.http_status << std::endl; std::cout << ss.str() << std::endl; } } );","title":"Error notification"},{"location":"usage/#start-stop","text":"websocket.start() connect to the remote server and starts the message receiving background thread. websocket.stop() disconnect from the remote server and closes the background thread.","title":"start, stop"},{"location":"usage/#configuring-the-remote-url","text":"The url can be set and queried after a websocket object has been created. 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Note that when a ping message is received, a pong is instantly send back as requested by the WebSocket spec. webSocket.setOnMessageCallback([](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Ping || msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Pong) { std::cout << \"pong data: \" << msg->str << std::endl; } } ); A ping message can be sent to the server, with an optional data string. websocket.ping(\"ping data, optional (empty string is ok): limited to 125 bytes long\");","title":"Ping/Pong support"},{"location":"usage/#heartbeat","text":"You can configure an optional heart beat / keep-alive, sent every 45 seconds when there is no any traffic to make sure that load balancers do not kill an idle connection. webSocket.setHeartBeatPeriod(45);","title":"Heartbeat."},{"location":"usage/#supply-extra-http-headers","text":"You can set extra HTTP headers to be sent during the WebSocket handshake. 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This feature is on by default and can be turned off. webSocket.enableAutomaticReconnection(); // turn on webSocket.disableAutomaticReconnection(); // turn off bool enabled = webSocket.isAutomaticReconnectionEnabled(); // query state The technique to calculate wait time is called exponential backoff . Here are the default waiting times between attempts (from connecting with ws connect ws://foo.com ) > Connection error: Got bad status connecting to foo.com, status: 301, HTTP Status line: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently #retries: 1 Wait time(ms): 100 #retries: 2 Wait time(ms): 200 #retries: 3 Wait time(ms): 400 #retries: 4 Wait time(ms): 800 #retries: 5 Wait time(ms): 1600 #retries: 6 Wait time(ms): 3200 #retries: 7 Wait time(ms): 6400 #retries: 8 Wait time(ms): 10000 The waiting time is capped by default at 10s between 2 attempts, but that value can be changed and queried. webSocket.setMaxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries(5 * 1000); // 5000ms = 5s uint32_t m = webSocket.getMaxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries();","title":"Automatic reconnection"},{"location":"usage/#websocket-server-api","text":"#include ... // Run a server on localhost at a given port. // Bound host name, max connections and listen backlog can also be passed in as parameters. ix::WebSocketServer server(port); server.setOnConnectionCallback( [&server](std::shared_ptr webSocket, std::shared_ptr connectionState) { webSocket->setOnMessageCallback( [webSocket, connectionState, &server](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Open) { std::cerr << \"New connection\" << std::endl; // A connection state object is available, and has a default id // You can subclass ConnectionState and pass an alternate factory // to override it. It is useful if you want to store custom // attributes per connection (authenticated bool flag, attributes, etc...) std::cerr << \"id: \" << connectionState->getId() << std::endl; // The uri the client did connect to. std::cerr << \"Uri: \" << msg->openInfo.uri << std::endl; std::cerr << \"Headers:\" << std::endl; for (auto it : msg->openInfo.headers) { std::cerr << it.first << \": \" << it.second << std::endl; } } else if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Message) { // For an echo server, we just send back to the client whatever was received by the server // All connected clients are available in an std::set. See the broadcast cpp example. // Second parameter tells whether we are sending the message in binary or text mode. // Here we send it in the same mode as it was received. webSocket->send(msg->str, msg->binary); } } ); } ); auto res = server.listen(); if (!res.first) { // Error handling return 1; } // Run the server in the background. Server can be stoped by calling server.stop() server.start(); // Block until server.stop() is called. server.wait();","title":"WebSocket server API"},{"location":"usage/#http-client-api","text":"#include ... // // Preparation // HttpClient httpClient; HttpRequestArgsPtr args = httpClient.createRequest(); // Custom headers can be set WebSocketHttpHeaders headers; headers[\"Foo\"] = \"bar\"; args->extraHeaders = headers; // Timeout options args->connectTimeout = connectTimeout; args->transferTimeout = transferTimeout; // Redirect options args->followRedirects = followRedirects; args->maxRedirects = maxRedirects; // Misc args->compress = compress; // Enable gzip compression args->verbose = verbose; args->logger = [](const std::string& msg) { std::cout << msg; }; // // Synchronous Request // HttpResponsePtr out; std::string url = \"https://www.google.com\"; // HEAD request out = httpClient.head(url, args); // GET request out = httpClient.get(url, args); // POST request with parameters HttpParameters httpParameters; httpParameters[\"foo\"] = \"bar\"; out = httpClient.post(url, httpParameters, args); // POST request with a body out = httpClient.post(url, std::string(\"foo=bar\"), args); // // Result // auto statusCode = response->statusCode; // Can be HttpErrorCode::Ok, HttpErrorCode::UrlMalformed, etc... auto errorCode = response->errorCode; // 200, 404, etc... auto responseHeaders = response->headers; // All the headers in a special case-insensitive unordered_map of (string, string) auto payload = response->payload; // All the bytes from the response as an std::string auto errorMsg = response->errorMsg; // Descriptive error message in case of failure auto uploadSize = response->uploadSize; // Byte count of uploaded data auto downloadSize = response->downloadSize; // Byte count of downloaded data // // Asynchronous Request // bool async = true; HttpClient httpClient(async); auto args = httpClient.createRequest(url, HttpClient::kGet); // Push the request to a queue, bool ok = httpClient.performRequest(args, [](const HttpResponsePtr& response) { // This callback execute in a background thread. 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You can look at HttpServer::setDefaultConnectionCallback for a slightly more advanced callback example. setOnConnectionCallback( [this](HttpRequestPtr request, std::shared_ptr /*connectionState*/) -> HttpResponsePtr { // Build a string for the response std::stringstream ss; ss << request->method << \" \" << request->uri; std::string content = ss.str(); return std::make_shared(200, \"OK\", HttpErrorCode::Ok, WebSocketHttpHeaders(), content); }","title":"HTTP server API"},{"location":"usage/#tls-support-and-configuration","text":"To leverage TLS features, the library must be compiled with the option USE_TLS=1 . Then, secure sockets are automatically used when connecting to a wss://* url. Additional TLS options can be configured by passing a ix::SocketTLSOptions instance to the setTLSOptions on ix::WebSocket (or ix::WebSocketServer or ix::HttpServer ) webSocket.setTLSOptions({ .certFile = \"path/to/cert/file.pem\", .keyFile = \"path/to/key/file.pem\", .caFile = \"path/to/trust/bundle/file.pem\", .tls = true // required in server mode }); Specifying certFile and keyFile configures the certificate that will be used to communicate with TLS peers. On a client, this is only necessary for connecting to servers that require a client certificate. On a server, this is necessary for TLS support. Specifying caFile configures the trusted roots bundle file (in PEM format) that will be used to verify peer certificates. - The special value of SYSTEM (the default) indicates that the system-configured trust bundle should be used; this is generally what you want when connecting to any publicly exposed API/server. - The special value of NONE can be used to disable peer verification; this is only recommended to rule out certificate verification when testing connectivity. For a client, specifying caFile can be used if connecting to a server that uses a self-signed cert, or when using a custom CA in an internal environment. For a server, specifying caFile implies that: 1. You require clients to present a certificate 1. It must be signed by one of the trusted roots in the file","title":"TLS support and configuration"},{"location":"ws/","text":"General ws is a command line tool that should exercise most of the IXWebSocket code, and provide example code. ws is a websocket tool Usage: ws [OPTIONS] SUBCOMMAND Options: -h,--help Print this help message and exit Subcommands: send Send a file receive Receive a file transfer Broadcasting server connect Connect to a remote server chat Group chat echo_server Echo server broadcast_server Broadcasting server ping Ping pong curl HTTP Client redis_publish Redis publisher redis_subscribe Redis subscriber cobra_subscribe Cobra subscriber cobra_publish Cobra publisher cobra_to_statsd Cobra to statsd cobra_to_sentry Cobra to sentry snake Snake server httpd HTTP server curl The curl subcommand try to be compatible with the curl syntax, to fetch http pages. Making a HEAD request with the -I parameter. $ ws curl -I https://www.google.com/ Accept-Ranges: none Alt-Svc: quic=\":443\"; ma=2592000; v=\"46,43\",h3-Q048=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q046=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q043=\":443\"; ma=2592000 Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:36:57 GMT Expires: -1 P3P: CP=\"This is not a P3P policy! See g.co/p3phelp for more info.\" Server: gws Set-Cookie: NID=188=ASwfz8GrXQrHCLqAz-AndLOMLcz0rC9yecnf3h0yXZxRL3rTufTU_GDDwERp7qQL7LZ_EB8gCRyPXGERyOSAgaqgnrkoTmvWrwFemRLMaOZ896GrHobi5fV7VLklnSG2w48Gj8xMlwxfP7Z-bX-xR9UZxep1tHM6UmFQdD_GkBE; expires=Wed, 08-Apr-2020 21:36:57 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; HttpOnly Transfer-Encoding: chunked Vary: Accept-Encoding X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-XSS-Protection: 0 Upload size: 143 Download size: 0 Status: 200 Making a POST request with the -F parameter. $ ws curl -F foo=bar https://httpbin.org/post foo: bar Downloaded 438 bytes out of 438 Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Connection: keep-alive Content-Encoding: Content-Length: 438 Content-Type: application/json Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:47:54 GMT Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade Server: nginx X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options: DENY X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Upload size: 219 Download size: 438 Status: 200 payload: { \"args\": {}, \"data\": \"\", \"files\": {}, \"form\": { \"foo\": \"bar\" }, \"headers\": { \"Accept\": \"*/*\", \"Content-Length\": \"7\", \"Content-Type\": \"application/x-www-form-urlencoded\", \"Host\": \"httpbin.org\", \"User-Agent\": \"ixwebsocket/7.0.0 macos ssl/OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018 zlib 1.2.11\" }, \"json\": null, \"origin\": \"155.94.127.118, 155.94.127.118\", \"url\": \"https://httpbin.org/post\" } Passing in a custom header with -H. $ ws curl -F foo=bar -H 'my_custom_header: baz' https://httpbin.org/post my_custom_header: baz foo: bar Downloaded 470 bytes out of 470 Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Connection: keep-alive Content-Encoding: Content-Length: 470 Content-Type: application/json Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:50:25 GMT Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade Server: nginx X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options: DENY X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Upload size: 243 Download size: 470 Status: 200 payload: { \"args\": {}, \"data\": \"\", \"files\": {}, \"form\": { \"foo\": \"bar\" }, \"headers\": { \"Accept\": \"*/*\", \"Content-Length\": \"7\", \"Content-Type\": \"application/x-www-form-urlencoded\", \"Host\": \"httpbin.org\", \"My-Custom-Header\": \"baz\", \"User-Agent\": \"ixwebsocket/7.0.0 macos ssl/OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018 zlib 1.2.11\" }, \"json\": null, \"origin\": \"155.94.127.118, 155.94.127.118\", \"url\": \"https://httpbin.org/post\" } connect The connect command connects to a websocket endpoint, and starts an interactive prompt. Line editing, such as using the direction keys to fetch the last thing you tried to type) is provided. That command is pretty useful to try to send random data to an endpoint and verify that the service handles it with grace (such as sending invalid json). ws connect wss://echo.websocket.org Type Ctrl-D to exit prompt... Connecting to url: wss://echo.websocket.org > ws_connect: connected Uri: / Handshake Headers: Connection: Upgrade Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:38:44 GMT Sec-WebSocket-Accept: 2j6LBScZveqrMx1W/GJkCWvZo3M= sec-websocket-extensions: Server: Kaazing Gateway Upgrade: websocket Received ping Received ping Received ping Hello world ! > Received 13 bytes ws_connect: received message: Hello world ! > Hello world ! > Received 13 bytes ws_connect: received message: Hello world ! ws connect 'ws://jeanserge.com/v2?appkey=_pubsub' Type Ctrl-D to exit prompt... Connecting to url: ws://jeanserge.com/v2?appkey=_pubsub > ws_connect: connected Uri: /v2?appkey=_pubsub Handshake Headers: Connection: Upgrade Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:45:28 GMT Sec-WebSocket-Accept: LYHmjh9Gsu/Yw7aumQqyPObOEV4= Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 Server: Python/3.7 websockets/8.0.2 Upgrade: websocket bababababababab > ws_connect: connection closed: code 1000 reason ws_connect: connected Uri: /v2?appkey=_pubsub Handshake Headers: Connection: Upgrade Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:45:44 GMT Sec-WebSocket-Accept: I1rqxdLgTU+opPi5/zKPBTuXdLw= Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 Server: Python/3.7 websockets/8.0.2 Upgrade: websocket Websocket proxy ws proxy_server --remote_host ws://127.0.0.1:9000 -v Listening on 127.0.0.1:8008 If you connect to ws://127.0.0.1:8008, the proxy will connect to ws://127.0.0.1:9000 and pass all traffic to this server. File transfer # Start transfer server, which is just a broadcast server at this point ws transfer # running on port 8080. # Start receiver first ws receive ws://localhost:8080 # Then send a file. File will be received and written to disk by the receiver process ws send ws://localhost:8080 /file/to/path HTTP Client $ ws curl --help HTTP Client Usage: ws curl [OPTIONS] url Positionals: url TEXT REQUIRED Connection url Options: -h,--help Print this help message and exit -d TEXT Form data -F TEXT Form data -H TEXT Header --output TEXT Output file -I Send a HEAD request -L Follow redirects --max-redirects INT Max Redirects -v Verbose -O Save output to disk --compress Enable gzip compression --connect-timeout INT Connection timeout --transfer-timeout INT Transfer timeout Cobra client and server cobra is a real time messenging server. ws has several sub-command to interact with cobra. There is also a minimal cobra compatible server named snake available. Below are examples on running a snake server and clients with TLS enabled (the server only works with the OpenSSL and the Mbed TLS backend for now). First, generate certificates. $ cd /path/to/IXWebSocket $ cd ixsnake/ixsnake $ bash ../../ws/generate_certs.sh Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus .....+++ .................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/trusted-ca-key.pem generated ./.certs/trusted-ca-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ..+++ .......................................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/trusted-server-key.pem Signature ok subject=/O=machinezone/O=IXWebSocket/CN=trusted-server Getting CA Private Key generated ./.certs/trusted-server-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ...................................+++ ..................................................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/trusted-client-key.pem Signature ok subject=/O=machinezone/O=IXWebSocket/CN=trusted-client Getting CA Private Key generated ./.certs/trusted-client-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ..............+++ .......................................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/untrusted-ca-key.pem generated ./.certs/untrusted-ca-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ..........+++ ................................................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/untrusted-client-key.pem Signature ok subject=/O=machinezone/O=IXWebSocket/CN=untrusted-client Getting CA Private Key generated ./.certs/untrusted-client-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus .....................................................................................+++ ...........+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/selfsigned-client-key.pem Signature ok subject=/O=machinezone/O=IXWebSocket/CN=selfsigned-client Getting Private key generated ./.certs/selfsigned-client-crt.pem Now run the snake server. $ export certs=.certs $ ws snake --tls --port 8765 --cert-file ${certs}/trusted-server-crt.pem --key-file ${certs}/trusted-server-key.pem --ca-file ${certs}/trusted-ca-crt.pem { \"apps\": { \"FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f\": { \"roles\": { \"_sub\": { \"secret\": \"66B1dA3ED5fA074EB5AE84Dd8CE3b5ba\" }, \"_pub\": { \"secret\": \"1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db\" } } } } } redis host: 127.0.0.1 redis password: redis port: 6379 As a new connection comes in, such output should be printed [2019-12-19 20:27:19.724] [info] New connection id: 0 Uri: /v2?appkey=_health Headers: Connection: Upgrade Host: 127.0.0.1:8765 Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 Sec-WebSocket-Key: d747B0fE61Db73f7Eh47c0== Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: json Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13 Upgrade: websocket User-Agent: ixwebsocket/7.5.8 macos ssl/OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018 zlib 1.2.11 To connect and publish a message, do: $ export certs=.certs $ cd /path/to/ws/folder $ ls cobraMetricsSample.json cobraMetricsSample.json $ ws cobra_publish --endpoint wss://127.0.0.1:8765 --appkey FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f --rolename _pub --rolesecret 1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db --channel foo --cert-file ${certs}/trusted-client-crt.pem --key-file ${certs}/trusted-client-key.pem --ca-file ${certs}/trusted-ca-crt.pem cobraMetricsSample.json [2019-12-19 20:46:42.656] [info] Publisher connected [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Connection: Upgrade [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Accept: rs99IFThoBrhSg+k8G4ixH9yaq4= [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Server: ixwebsocket/7.5.8 macos ssl/OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018 zlib 1.2.11 [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Upgrade: websocket [2019-12-19 20:46:42.658] [info] Publisher authenticated [2019-12-19 20:46:42.658] [info] Published msg 3 [2019-12-19 20:46:42.659] [info] Published message id 3 acked To use OpenSSL on macOS, compile with make ws_openssl . First you will have to install OpenSSL libraries, which can be done with Homebrew. Use make ws_mbedtls accordingly to use MbedTLS.","title":"Ws"},{"location":"ws/#general","text":"ws is a command line tool that should exercise most of the IXWebSocket code, and provide example code. ws is a websocket tool Usage: ws [OPTIONS] SUBCOMMAND Options: -h,--help Print this help message and exit Subcommands: send Send a file receive Receive a file transfer Broadcasting server connect Connect to a remote server chat Group chat echo_server Echo server broadcast_server Broadcasting server ping Ping pong curl HTTP Client redis_publish Redis publisher redis_subscribe Redis subscriber cobra_subscribe Cobra subscriber cobra_publish Cobra publisher cobra_to_statsd Cobra to statsd cobra_to_sentry Cobra to sentry snake Snake server httpd HTTP server","title":"General"},{"location":"ws/#curl","text":"The curl subcommand try to be compatible with the curl syntax, to fetch http pages. Making a HEAD request with the -I parameter. $ ws curl -I https://www.google.com/ Accept-Ranges: none Alt-Svc: quic=\":443\"; ma=2592000; v=\"46,43\",h3-Q048=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q046=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q043=\":443\"; ma=2592000 Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:36:57 GMT Expires: -1 P3P: CP=\"This is not a P3P policy! See g.co/p3phelp for more info.\" Server: gws Set-Cookie: NID=188=ASwfz8GrXQrHCLqAz-AndLOMLcz0rC9yecnf3h0yXZxRL3rTufTU_GDDwERp7qQL7LZ_EB8gCRyPXGERyOSAgaqgnrkoTmvWrwFemRLMaOZ896GrHobi5fV7VLklnSG2w48Gj8xMlwxfP7Z-bX-xR9UZxep1tHM6UmFQdD_GkBE; expires=Wed, 08-Apr-2020 21:36:57 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; HttpOnly Transfer-Encoding: chunked Vary: Accept-Encoding X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-XSS-Protection: 0 Upload size: 143 Download size: 0 Status: 200 Making a POST request with the -F parameter. $ ws curl -F foo=bar https://httpbin.org/post foo: bar Downloaded 438 bytes out of 438 Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Connection: keep-alive Content-Encoding: Content-Length: 438 Content-Type: application/json Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:47:54 GMT Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade Server: nginx X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options: DENY X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Upload size: 219 Download size: 438 Status: 200 payload: { \"args\": {}, \"data\": \"\", \"files\": {}, \"form\": { \"foo\": \"bar\" }, \"headers\": { \"Accept\": \"*/*\", \"Content-Length\": \"7\", \"Content-Type\": \"application/x-www-form-urlencoded\", \"Host\": \"httpbin.org\", \"User-Agent\": \"ixwebsocket/7.0.0 macos ssl/OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018 zlib 1.2.11\" }, \"json\": null, \"origin\": \"155.94.127.118, 155.94.127.118\", \"url\": \"https://httpbin.org/post\" } Passing in a custom header with -H. $ ws curl -F foo=bar -H 'my_custom_header: baz' https://httpbin.org/post my_custom_header: baz foo: bar Downloaded 470 bytes out of 470 Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Connection: keep-alive Content-Encoding: Content-Length: 470 Content-Type: application/json Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:50:25 GMT Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade Server: nginx X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options: DENY X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Upload size: 243 Download size: 470 Status: 200 payload: { \"args\": {}, \"data\": \"\", \"files\": {}, \"form\": { \"foo\": \"bar\" }, \"headers\": { \"Accept\": \"*/*\", \"Content-Length\": \"7\", \"Content-Type\": \"application/x-www-form-urlencoded\", \"Host\": \"httpbin.org\", \"My-Custom-Header\": \"baz\", \"User-Agent\": \"ixwebsocket/7.0.0 macos ssl/OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018 zlib 1.2.11\" }, \"json\": null, \"origin\": \"155.94.127.118, 155.94.127.118\", \"url\": \"https://httpbin.org/post\" }","title":"curl"},{"location":"ws/#connect","text":"The connect command connects to a websocket endpoint, and starts an interactive prompt. Line editing, such as using the direction keys to fetch the last thing you tried to type) is provided. That command is pretty useful to try to send random data to an endpoint and verify that the service handles it with grace (such as sending invalid json). ws connect wss://echo.websocket.org Type Ctrl-D to exit prompt... Connecting to url: wss://echo.websocket.org > ws_connect: connected Uri: / Handshake Headers: Connection: Upgrade Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:38:44 GMT Sec-WebSocket-Accept: 2j6LBScZveqrMx1W/GJkCWvZo3M= sec-websocket-extensions: Server: Kaazing Gateway Upgrade: websocket Received ping Received ping Received ping Hello world ! > Received 13 bytes ws_connect: received message: Hello world ! > Hello world ! > Received 13 bytes ws_connect: received message: Hello world ! ws connect 'ws://jeanserge.com/v2?appkey=_pubsub' Type Ctrl-D to exit prompt... Connecting to url: ws://jeanserge.com/v2?appkey=_pubsub > ws_connect: connected Uri: /v2?appkey=_pubsub Handshake Headers: Connection: Upgrade Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:45:28 GMT Sec-WebSocket-Accept: LYHmjh9Gsu/Yw7aumQqyPObOEV4= Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 Server: Python/3.7 websockets/8.0.2 Upgrade: websocket bababababababab > ws_connect: connection closed: code 1000 reason ws_connect: connected Uri: /v2?appkey=_pubsub Handshake Headers: Connection: Upgrade Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:45:44 GMT Sec-WebSocket-Accept: I1rqxdLgTU+opPi5/zKPBTuXdLw= Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 Server: Python/3.7 websockets/8.0.2 Upgrade: websocket","title":"connect"},{"location":"ws/#websocket-proxy","text":"ws proxy_server --remote_host ws://127.0.0.1:9000 -v Listening on 127.0.0.1:8008 If you connect to ws://127.0.0.1:8008, the proxy will connect to ws://127.0.0.1:9000 and pass all traffic to this server.","title":"Websocket proxy"},{"location":"ws/#file-transfer","text":"# Start transfer server, which is just a broadcast server at this point ws transfer # running on port 8080. # Start receiver first ws receive ws://localhost:8080 # Then send a file. File will be received and written to disk by the receiver process ws send ws://localhost:8080 /file/to/path","title":"File transfer"},{"location":"ws/#http-client","text":"$ ws curl --help HTTP Client Usage: ws curl [OPTIONS] url Positionals: url TEXT REQUIRED Connection url Options: -h,--help Print this help message and exit -d TEXT Form data -F TEXT Form data -H TEXT Header --output TEXT Output file -I Send a HEAD request -L Follow redirects --max-redirects INT Max Redirects -v Verbose -O Save output to disk --compress Enable gzip compression --connect-timeout INT Connection timeout --transfer-timeout INT Transfer timeout","title":"HTTP Client"},{"location":"ws/#cobra-client-and-server","text":"cobra is a real time messenging server. ws has several sub-command to interact with cobra. There is also a minimal cobra compatible server named snake available. Below are examples on running a snake server and clients with TLS enabled (the server only works with the OpenSSL and the Mbed TLS backend for now). First, generate certificates. $ cd /path/to/IXWebSocket $ cd ixsnake/ixsnake $ bash ../../ws/generate_certs.sh Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus .....+++ .................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/trusted-ca-key.pem generated ./.certs/trusted-ca-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ..+++ .......................................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/trusted-server-key.pem Signature ok subject=/O=machinezone/O=IXWebSocket/CN=trusted-server Getting CA Private Key generated ./.certs/trusted-server-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ...................................+++ ..................................................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/trusted-client-key.pem Signature ok subject=/O=machinezone/O=IXWebSocket/CN=trusted-client Getting CA Private Key generated ./.certs/trusted-client-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ..............+++ .......................................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/untrusted-ca-key.pem generated ./.certs/untrusted-ca-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ..........+++ ................................................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/untrusted-client-key.pem Signature ok subject=/O=machinezone/O=IXWebSocket/CN=untrusted-client Getting CA Private Key generated ./.certs/untrusted-client-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus .....................................................................................+++ ...........+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/selfsigned-client-key.pem Signature ok subject=/O=machinezone/O=IXWebSocket/CN=selfsigned-client Getting Private key generated ./.certs/selfsigned-client-crt.pem Now run the snake server. $ export certs=.certs $ ws snake --tls --port 8765 --cert-file ${certs}/trusted-server-crt.pem --key-file ${certs}/trusted-server-key.pem --ca-file ${certs}/trusted-ca-crt.pem { \"apps\": { \"FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f\": { \"roles\": { \"_sub\": { \"secret\": \"66B1dA3ED5fA074EB5AE84Dd8CE3b5ba\" }, \"_pub\": { \"secret\": \"1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db\" } } } } } redis host: 127.0.0.1 redis password: redis port: 6379 As a new connection comes in, such output should be printed [2019-12-19 20:27:19.724] [info] New connection id: 0 Uri: /v2?appkey=_health Headers: Connection: Upgrade Host: 127.0.0.1:8765 Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 Sec-WebSocket-Key: d747B0fE61Db73f7Eh47c0== Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: json Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13 Upgrade: websocket User-Agent: ixwebsocket/7.5.8 macos ssl/OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018 zlib 1.2.11 To connect and publish a message, do: $ export certs=.certs $ cd /path/to/ws/folder $ ls cobraMetricsSample.json cobraMetricsSample.json $ ws cobra_publish --endpoint wss://127.0.0.1:8765 --appkey FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f --rolename _pub --rolesecret 1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db --channel foo --cert-file ${certs}/trusted-client-crt.pem --key-file ${certs}/trusted-client-key.pem --ca-file ${certs}/trusted-ca-crt.pem cobraMetricsSample.json [2019-12-19 20:46:42.656] [info] Publisher connected [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Connection: Upgrade [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Accept: rs99IFThoBrhSg+k8G4ixH9yaq4= [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Server: ixwebsocket/7.5.8 macos ssl/OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018 zlib 1.2.11 [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Upgrade: websocket [2019-12-19 20:46:42.658] [info] Publisher authenticated [2019-12-19 20:46:42.658] [info] Published msg 3 [2019-12-19 20:46:42.659] [info] Published message id 3 acked To use OpenSSL on macOS, compile with make ws_openssl . First you will have to install OpenSSL libraries, which can be done with Homebrew. Use make ws_mbedtls accordingly to use MbedTLS.","title":"Cobra client and server"}]} \ No newline at end of file +{"config":{"lang":["en"],"prebuild_index":false,"separator":"[\\s\\-]+"},"docs":[{"location":"","text":"Introduction WebSocket is a computer communications protocol, providing full-duplex and bi-directionnal communication channels over a single TCP connection. IXWebSocket is a C++ library for client and server Websocket communication, and for client and server HTTP communication. TLS aka SSL is supported. The code is derived from easywsclient and from the Satori C SDK . It has been tested on the following platforms. macOS iOS Linux Android Windows FreeBSD Example code // Required on Windows ix::initNetSystem(); // Our websocket object ix::WebSocket webSocket; std::string url(\"ws://localhost:8080/\"); webSocket.setUrl(url); // Setup a callback to be fired when a message or an event (open, close, error) is received webSocket.setOnMessageCallback([](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Message) { std::cout << msg->str << std::endl; } } ); // Now that our callback is setup, we can start our background thread and receive messages webSocket.start(); // Send a message to the server (default to TEXT mode) webSocket.send(\"hello world\"); Why another library? There are 2 main reasons that explain why IXWebSocket got written. First, we needed a C++ cross-platform client library, which should have few dependencies. What looked like the most solid one, websocketpp did depend on boost and this was not an option for us. 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We'd love to hear about how you use it; opening up an issue on GitHub is ok for that. If things don't work as expected, please create an issue on GitHub, or even better a pull request if you know how to fix your problem.","title":"Home"},{"location":"#introduction","text":"WebSocket is a computer communications protocol, providing full-duplex and bi-directionnal communication channels over a single TCP connection. IXWebSocket is a C++ library for client and server Websocket communication, and for client and server HTTP communication. TLS aka SSL is supported. The code is derived from easywsclient and from the Satori C SDK . 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[8.2.5] - 2020-03-13 (cobra client) ws cobra subscribe resubscribe at latest position after being disconnected [8.2.4] - 2020-03-13 (cobra client) can subscribe with a position [8.2.3] - 2020-03-13 (cobra client) pass the message position to the subscription data callback [8.2.2] - 2020-03-12 (openssl tls backend) Fix a hand in OpenSSL when using TLS v1.3 ... by disabling TLS v1.3 [8.2.1] - 2020-03-11 (cobra) IXCobraConfig struct has tlsOptions and per message deflate options [8.2.0] - 2020-03-11 (cobra) add IXCobraConfig struct to pass cobra config around [8.1.9] - 2020-03-09 (ws cobra_subscribe) add a --fluentd option to wrap a message in an enveloppe so that fluentd can recognize it [8.1.8] - 2020-03-02 (websocket server) fix regression with disabling zlib extension on the server side. If a client does not support this extension the server will handle it fine. We still need to figure out how to disable the option. [8.1.7] - 2020-02-26 (websocket) traffic tracker received bytes is message size while it should be wire size [8.1.6] - 2020-02-26 (ws_connect) display sent/received bytes statistics on exit [8.1.5] - 2020-02-23 (server) give thread name to some usual worker threads / unittest is broken !! [8.1.4] - 2020-02-22 (websocket server) fix regression from 8.1.2, where per-deflate message compression was always disabled [8.1.3] - 2020-02-21 (client + server) Fix #155 / http header parser should treat the space(s) after the : delimiter as optional. Fixing this bug made us discover that websocket sub-protocols are not properly serialiazed, but start with a , [8.1.2] - 2020-02-18 (WebSocketServer) add option to disable deflate compression, exposed with the -x option to ws echo_server [8.1.1] - 2020-02-18 (ws cobra to statsd and sentry sender) exit if no messages are received for one minute, which is a sign that something goes wrong on the server side. That should be changed to be configurable in the future [8.1.0] - 2020-02-13 (http client + sentry minidump upload) Multipart stream closing boundary is invalid + mark some options as mandatory in the command line tools [8.0.7] - 2020-02-12 (build) remove the unused subtree which was causing some way of installing to break [8.0.6] - 2020-01-31 (snake) add an option to disable answering pongs as response to pings, to test cobra client behavior with hanged connections [8.0.5] - 2020-01-31 (IXCobraConnection) set a ping timeout of 90 seconds. If no pong messages are received as responses to ping for a while, give up and close the connection [8.0.4] - 2020-01-31 (cobra to sentry) remove noisy logging [8.0.3] - 2020-01-30 (ixcobra) check if we are authenticated in publishNext before trying to publish a message [8.0.2] - 2020-01-28 Extract severity level when emitting messages to sentry [8.0.1] - 2020-01-28 Fix bug #151 - If a socket connection is interrupted, calling stop() on the IXWebSocket object blocks until the next retry [8.0.0] - 2020-01-26 (SocketServer) add ability to bind on an ipv6 address [7.9.6] - 2020-01-22 (ws) add a dnslookup sub-command, to get the ip address of a remote host [7.9.5] - 2020-01-14 (windows) fix #144, get rid of stubbed/un-implemented windows schannel ssl backend [7.9.4] - 2020-01-12 (openssl + mbedssl) fix #140, can send large files with ws send over ssl / still broken with apple ssl [7.9.3] - 2020-01-10 (apple ssl) model write method after the OpenSSL one for consistency [7.9.2] - 2020-01-06 (apple ssl) unify read and write ssl utility code [7.9.1] - 2020-01-06 (websocket client) better error propagation when errors are detected while sending data (ws send) detect failures to send big files, terminate in those cases and report error [7.9.0] - 2020-01-04 (ws send) add option (-x) to disable per message deflate compression [7.8.9] - 2020-01-04 (ws send + receive) handle all message types (ping + pong + fragment) / investigate #140 [7.8.8] - 2019-12-28 (mbedtls) fix related to private key file parsing and initialization [7.8.6] - 2019-12-28 (ws cobra to sentry/statsd) fix for handling null events properly for empty queues + use queue to send data to statsd [7.8.5] - 2019-12-28 (ws cobra to sentry) handle null events for empty queues [7.8.4] - 2019-12-27 (ws cobra to sentry) game is picked in a fair manner, so that all games get the same share of sent events [7.8.3] - 2019-12-27 (ws cobra to sentry) refactor queue related code into a class [7.8.2] - 2019-12-25 (ws cobra to sentry) bound the queue size used to hold up cobra messages before they are sent to sentry. Default queue size is a 100 messages. Without such limit the program runs out of memory when a subscriber receive a lot of messages that cannot make it to sentry [7.8.1] - 2019-12-25 (ws client) use correct compilation defines so that spdlog is not used as a header only library (reduce binary size and increase compilation speed) [7.8.0] - 2019-12-24 (ws client) all commands use spdlog instead of std::cerr or std::cout for logging [7.6.5] - 2019-12-24 (cobra client) send a websocket ping every 30s to keep the connection opened [7.6.4] - 2019-12-22 (client) error handling, quote url in error case when failing to parse one (ws) ws_cobra_publish: register callbacks before connecting (doc) mention mbedtls in supported ssl server backend [7.6.3] - 2019-12-20 (tls) add a simple description of the TLS configuration routine for debugging [7.6.2] - 2019-12-20 (mbedtls) correct support for using own certificate and private key [7.6.1] - 2019-12-20 (ws commands) in websocket proxy, disable automatic reconnections + in Dockerfile, use alpine 3.11 [7.6.0] - 2019-12-19 (cobra) Add TLS options to all cobra commands and classes. 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To run the server: $ cd /ixsnake/ixsnake $ ws snake { \"apps\": { \"FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f\": { \"roles\": { \"_sub\": { \"secret\": \"66B1dA3ED5fA074EB5AE84Dd8CE3b5ba\" }, \"_pub\": { \"secret\": \"1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db\" } } } } } redis host: 127.0.0.1 redis password: redis port: 6379 Publisher $ cd /ws $ ws cobra_publish --appkey FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f --endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:8008 --rolename _pub --rolesecret 1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db test_channel cobraMetricsSample.json [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Publisher connected [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Connection: Upgrade [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Accept: zTtQKMKbvwjdivURplYXwCVUCWM= [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Server: ixwebsocket/7.4.0 macos ssl/DarwinSSL zlib 1.2.11 [2019-11-27 09:06:12.980] [info] Upgrade: websocket [2019-11-27 09:06:12.982] [info] Publisher authenticated [2019-11-27 09:06:12.982] [info] Published msg 3 [2019-11-27 09:06:12.982] [info] Published message id 3 acked Subscriber $ ws cobra_subscribe --appkey FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f --endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:8008 --rolename _pub --rolesecret 1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db test_channel #messages 0 msg/s 0 [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Subscriber connected [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Connection: Upgrade [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Accept: 9vkQWofz49qMCUlTSptCCwHWm+Q= [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Server: ixwebsocket/7.4.0 macos ssl/DarwinSSL zlib 1.2.11 [2019-11-27 09:07:39.341] [info] Upgrade: websocket [2019-11-27 09:07:39.342] [info] Subscriber authenticated [2019-11-27 09:07:39.345] [info] Subscriber: subscribed to channel test_channel #messages 0 msg/s 0 #messages 0 msg/s 0 #messages 0 msg/s 0 {\"baz\":123,\"foo\":\"bar\"} #messages 1 msg/s 1 #messages 1 msg/s 0 #messages 1 msg/s 0 {\"baz\":123,\"foo\":\"bar\"} {\"baz\":123,\"foo\":\"bar\"} #messages 3 msg/s 2 #messages 3 msg/s 0 {\"baz\":123,\"foo\":\"bar\"} #messages 4 msg/s 1 ^C","title":"Cobra"},{"location":"cobra/#general","text":"cobra is a real time messaging server. 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The per message deflate compression option is supported. It can lead to very nice bandbwith savings (20x !) if your messages are similar, which is often the case for example for chat applications. All features of the spec should be supported. TLS/SSL Connections can be optionally secured and encrypted with TLS/SSL when using a wss:// endpoint, or using normal un-encrypted socket with ws:// endpoints. AppleSSL is used on iOS and macOS, OpenSSL and mbedTLS can be used on Android, Linux and Windows. Polling and background thread work No manual polling to fetch data is required. Data is sent and received instantly by using a background thread for receiving data and the select system call to be notified by the OS of incoming data. No timeout is used for select so that the background thread is only woken up when data is available, to optimize battery life. This is also the recommended way of using select according to the select tutorial, section select law . Read and Writes to the socket are non blocking. Data is sent right away and not enqueued by writing directly to the socket, which is possible since system socket implementations allow concurrent read/writes. However concurrent writes need to be protected with mutex. Automatic reconnection If the remote end (server) breaks the connection, the code will try to perpetually reconnect, by using an exponential backoff strategy, capped at one retry every 10 seconds. This behavior can be disabled. Large messages Large frames are broken up into smaller chunks or messages to avoid filling up the os tcp buffers, which is permitted thanks to WebSocket fragmentation . Messages up to 1G were sent and received succesfully. Testing The library has an interactive tool which is handy for testing compatibility ith other libraries. We have tested our client against Python, Erlang, Node.js, and C++ websocket server libraries. The unittest tries to be comprehensive, and has been running on multiple platforms, with different sanitizers such as a thread sanitizer to catch data races or the undefined behavior sanitizer. The regression test is running after each commit on travis. Limitations On Windows and Android certificate validation needs to be setup so that SocketTLSOptions.caFile point to a pem file, such as the one distributed by Firefox. Unless that setup is done connecting to a wss endpoint will display an error. On Windows with mbedtls the message will contain error in handshake : X509 - Certificate verification failed, e.g. CRL, CA or signature check failed . There is no convenient way to embed a ca cert. Automatic reconnection works at the TCP socket level, and will detect remote end disconnects. However, if the device/computer network become unreachable (by turning off wifi), it is quite hard to reliably and timely detect it at the socket level using recv and send error codes. Here is a good discussion on the subject. This behavior is consistent with other runtimes such as node.js. One way to detect a disconnected device with low level C code is to do a name resolution with DNS but this can be expensive. Mobile devices have good and reliable API to do that. The server code is using select to detect incoming data, and creates one OS thread per connection. This is not as scalable as strategies using epoll or kqueue. C++ code organization Here is a simplistic diagram which explains how the code is structured in term of class/modules. +-----------------------+ --- Public | | Start the receiving Background thread. Auto reconnection. Simple websocket Ping. | IXWebSocket | Interface used by C++ test clients. 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This init would typically take place in your main function. #include int main() { ix::initNetSystem(); ... ix::uninitNetSystem(); return 0; } WebSocket client API #include ... // Our websocket object ix::WebSocket webSocket; std::string url(\"ws://localhost:8080/\"); webSocket.setUrl(url); // Optional heart beat, sent every 45 seconds when there is not any traffic // to make sure that load balancers do not kill an idle connection. webSocket.setHeartBeatPeriod(45); // Per message deflate connection is enabled by default. You can tweak its parameters or disable it webSocket.disablePerMessageDeflate(); // Setup a callback to be fired when a message or an event (open, close, error) is received webSocket.setOnMessageCallback([](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Message) { std::cout << msg->str << std::endl; } } ); // Now that our callback is setup, we can start our background thread and receive messages webSocket.start(); // Send a message to the server (default to TEXT mode) webSocket.send(\"hello world\"); // The message can be sent in BINARY mode (useful if you send MsgPack data for example) webSocket.sendBinary(\"some serialized binary data\"); // ... finally ... // Stop the connection webSocket.stop() Sending messages websocket.send(\"foo\") will send a message. If the connection was closed and sending failed, the return value will be set to false. ReadyState getReadyState() returns the state of the connection. There are 4 possible states. ReadyState::Connecting - The connection is not yet open. ReadyState::Open - The connection is open and ready to communicate. ReadyState::Closing - The connection is in the process of closing. ReadyState::Closed - The connection is closed or could not be opened. Open and Close notifications The onMessage event will be fired when the connection is opened or closed. This is similar to the JavaScript browser API , which has open and close events notification that can be registered with the browser addEventListener . webSocket.setOnMessageCallback([](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Open) { std::cout << \"send greetings\" << std::endl; // Headers can be inspected (pairs of string/string) std::cout << \"Handshake Headers:\" << std::endl; for (auto it : msg->headers) { std::cout << it.first << \": \" << it.second << std::endl; } } else if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Close) { std::cout << \"disconnected\" << std::endl; // The server can send an explicit code and reason for closing. // This data can be accessed through the closeInfo object. std::cout << msg->closeInfo.code << std::endl; std::cout << msg->closeInfo.reason << std::endl; } } ); Error notification A message will be fired when there is an error with the connection. The message type will be ix::WebSocketMessageType::Error . Multiple fields will be available on the event to describe the error. webSocket.setOnMessageCallback([](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Error) { std::stringstream ss; ss << \"Error: \" << msg->errorInfo.reason << std::endl; ss << \"#retries: \" << msg->eventInfo.retries << std::endl; ss << \"Wait time(ms): \" << msg->eventInfo.wait_time << std::endl; ss << \"HTTP Status: \" << msg->eventInfo.http_status << std::endl; std::cout << ss.str() << std::endl; } } ); start, stop websocket.start() connect to the remote server and starts the message receiving background thread. websocket.stop() disconnect from the remote server and closes the background thread. Configuring the remote url The url can be set and queried after a websocket object has been created. You will have to call stop and start if you want to disconnect and connect to that new url. std::string url(\"wss://example.com\"); websocket.configure(url); Ping/Pong support Ping/pong messages are used to implement keep-alive. 2 message types exists to identify ping and pong messages. Note that when a ping message is received, a pong is instantly send back as requested by the WebSocket spec. webSocket.setOnMessageCallback([](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Ping || msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Pong) { std::cout << \"pong data: \" << msg->str << std::endl; } } ); A ping message can be sent to the server, with an optional data string. websocket.ping(\"ping data, optional (empty string is ok): limited to 125 bytes long\"); Heartbeat. You can configure an optional heart beat / keep-alive, sent every 45 seconds when there is no any traffic to make sure that load balancers do not kill an idle connection. webSocket.setHeartBeatPeriod(45); Supply extra HTTP headers. You can set extra HTTP headers to be sent during the WebSocket handshake. WebSocketHttpHeaders headers; headers[\"foo\"] = \"bar\"; webSocket.setExtraHeaders(headers); Subprotocols You can specify subprotocols to be set during the WebSocket handshake. For more info you can refer to this doc . webSocket.addSubprotocol(\"appProtocol-v1\"); webSocket.addSubprotocol(\"appProtocol-v2\"); The protocol that the server did accept is available in the open info protocol field. std::cout << \"protocol: \" << msg->openInfo.protocol << std::endl; Automatic reconnection Automatic reconnection kicks in when the connection is disconnected without the user consent. This feature is on by default and can be turned off. webSocket.enableAutomaticReconnection(); // turn on webSocket.disableAutomaticReconnection(); // turn off bool enabled = webSocket.isAutomaticReconnectionEnabled(); // query state The technique to calculate wait time is called exponential backoff . Here are the default waiting times between attempts (from connecting with ws connect ws://foo.com ) > Connection error: Got bad status connecting to foo.com, status: 301, HTTP Status line: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently #retries: 1 Wait time(ms): 100 #retries: 2 Wait time(ms): 200 #retries: 3 Wait time(ms): 400 #retries: 4 Wait time(ms): 800 #retries: 5 Wait time(ms): 1600 #retries: 6 Wait time(ms): 3200 #retries: 7 Wait time(ms): 6400 #retries: 8 Wait time(ms): 10000 The waiting time is capped by default at 10s between 2 attempts, but that value can be changed and queried. webSocket.setMaxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries(5 * 1000); // 5000ms = 5s uint32_t m = webSocket.getMaxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries(); WebSocket server API #include ... // Run a server on localhost at a given port. // Bound host name, max connections and listen backlog can also be passed in as parameters. ix::WebSocketServer server(port); server.setOnConnectionCallback( [&server](std::shared_ptr webSocket, std::shared_ptr connectionState) { webSocket->setOnMessageCallback( [webSocket, connectionState, &server](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Open) { std::cerr << \"New connection\" << std::endl; // A connection state object is available, and has a default id // You can subclass ConnectionState and pass an alternate factory // to override it. It is useful if you want to store custom // attributes per connection (authenticated bool flag, attributes, etc...) std::cerr << \"id: \" << connectionState->getId() << std::endl; // The uri the client did connect to. std::cerr << \"Uri: \" << msg->openInfo.uri << std::endl; std::cerr << \"Headers:\" << std::endl; for (auto it : msg->openInfo.headers) { std::cerr << it.first << \": \" << it.second << std::endl; } } else if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Message) { // For an echo server, we just send back to the client whatever was received by the server // All connected clients are available in an std::set. See the broadcast cpp example. // Second parameter tells whether we are sending the message in binary or text mode. // Here we send it in the same mode as it was received. webSocket->send(msg->str, msg->binary); } } ); } ); auto res = server.listen(); if (!res.first) { // Error handling return 1; } // Run the server in the background. Server can be stoped by calling server.stop() server.start(); // Block until server.stop() is called. server.wait(); HTTP client API #include ... // // Preparation // HttpClient httpClient; HttpRequestArgsPtr args = httpClient.createRequest(); // Custom headers can be set WebSocketHttpHeaders headers; headers[\"Foo\"] = \"bar\"; args->extraHeaders = headers; // Timeout options args->connectTimeout = connectTimeout; args->transferTimeout = transferTimeout; // Redirect options args->followRedirects = followRedirects; args->maxRedirects = maxRedirects; // Misc args->compress = compress; // Enable gzip compression args->verbose = verbose; args->logger = [](const std::string& msg) { std::cout << msg; }; // // Synchronous Request // HttpResponsePtr out; std::string url = \"https://www.google.com\"; // HEAD request out = httpClient.head(url, args); // GET request out = httpClient.get(url, args); // POST request with parameters HttpParameters httpParameters; httpParameters[\"foo\"] = \"bar\"; out = httpClient.post(url, httpParameters, args); // POST request with a body out = httpClient.post(url, std::string(\"foo=bar\"), args); // // Result // auto statusCode = response->statusCode; // Can be HttpErrorCode::Ok, HttpErrorCode::UrlMalformed, etc... auto errorCode = response->errorCode; // 200, 404, etc... auto responseHeaders = response->headers; // All the headers in a special case-insensitive unordered_map of (string, string) auto payload = response->payload; // All the bytes from the response as an std::string auto errorMsg = response->errorMsg; // Descriptive error message in case of failure auto uploadSize = response->uploadSize; // Byte count of uploaded data auto downloadSize = response->downloadSize; // Byte count of downloaded data // // Asynchronous Request // bool async = true; HttpClient httpClient(async); auto args = httpClient.createRequest(url, HttpClient::kGet); // Push the request to a queue, bool ok = httpClient.performRequest(args, [](const HttpResponsePtr& response) { // This callback execute in a background thread. Make sure you uses appropriate protection such as mutex auto statusCode = response->statusCode; // acess results } ); // ok will be false if your httpClient is not async HTTP server API #include ix::HttpServer server(port, hostname); auto res = server.listen(); if (!res.first) { std::cerr << res.second << std::endl; return 1; } server.start(); server.wait(); If you want to handle how requests are processed, implement the setOnConnectionCallback callback, which takes an HttpRequestPtr as input, and returns an HttpResponsePtr. You can look at HttpServer::setDefaultConnectionCallback for a slightly more advanced callback example. setOnConnectionCallback( [this](HttpRequestPtr request, std::shared_ptr /*connectionState*/) -> HttpResponsePtr { // Build a string for the response std::stringstream ss; ss << request->method << \" \" << request->uri; std::string content = ss.str(); return std::make_shared(200, \"OK\", HttpErrorCode::Ok, WebSocketHttpHeaders(), content); } TLS support and configuration To leverage TLS features, the library must be compiled with the option USE_TLS=1 . Then, secure sockets are automatically used when connecting to a wss://* url. Additional TLS options can be configured by passing a ix::SocketTLSOptions instance to the setTLSOptions on ix::WebSocket (or ix::WebSocketServer or ix::HttpServer ) webSocket.setTLSOptions({ .certFile = \"path/to/cert/file.pem\", .keyFile = \"path/to/key/file.pem\", .caFile = \"path/to/trust/bundle/file.pem\", .tls = true // required in server mode }); Specifying certFile and keyFile configures the certificate that will be used to communicate with TLS peers. On a client, this is only necessary for connecting to servers that require a client certificate. On a server, this is necessary for TLS support. 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This is similar to the JavaScript browser API , which has open and close events notification that can be registered with the browser addEventListener . webSocket.setOnMessageCallback([](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Open) { std::cout << \"send greetings\" << std::endl; // Headers can be inspected (pairs of string/string) std::cout << \"Handshake Headers:\" << std::endl; for (auto it : msg->headers) { std::cout << it.first << \": \" << it.second << std::endl; } } else if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Close) { std::cout << \"disconnected\" << std::endl; // The server can send an explicit code and reason for closing. // This data can be accessed through the closeInfo object. std::cout << msg->closeInfo.code << std::endl; std::cout << msg->closeInfo.reason << std::endl; } } );","title":"Open and Close notifications"},{"location":"usage/#error-notification","text":"A message will be fired when there is an error with the connection. The message type will be ix::WebSocketMessageType::Error . Multiple fields will be available on the event to describe the error. webSocket.setOnMessageCallback([](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Error) { std::stringstream ss; ss << \"Error: \" << msg->errorInfo.reason << std::endl; ss << \"#retries: \" << msg->eventInfo.retries << std::endl; ss << \"Wait time(ms): \" << msg->eventInfo.wait_time << std::endl; ss << \"HTTP Status: \" << msg->eventInfo.http_status << std::endl; std::cout << ss.str() << std::endl; } } );","title":"Error notification"},{"location":"usage/#start-stop","text":"websocket.start() connect to the remote server and starts the message receiving background thread. websocket.stop() disconnect from the remote server and closes the background thread.","title":"start, stop"},{"location":"usage/#configuring-the-remote-url","text":"The url can be set and queried after a websocket object has been created. You will have to call stop and start if you want to disconnect and connect to that new url. std::string url(\"wss://example.com\"); websocket.configure(url);","title":"Configuring the remote url"},{"location":"usage/#pingpong-support","text":"Ping/pong messages are used to implement keep-alive. 2 message types exists to identify ping and pong messages. Note that when a ping message is received, a pong is instantly send back as requested by the WebSocket spec. webSocket.setOnMessageCallback([](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Ping || msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Pong) { std::cout << \"pong data: \" << msg->str << std::endl; } } ); A ping message can be sent to the server, with an optional data string. websocket.ping(\"ping data, optional (empty string is ok): limited to 125 bytes long\");","title":"Ping/Pong support"},{"location":"usage/#heartbeat","text":"You can configure an optional heart beat / keep-alive, sent every 45 seconds when there is no any traffic to make sure that load balancers do not kill an idle connection. webSocket.setHeartBeatPeriod(45);","title":"Heartbeat."},{"location":"usage/#supply-extra-http-headers","text":"You can set extra HTTP headers to be sent during the WebSocket handshake. WebSocketHttpHeaders headers; headers[\"foo\"] = \"bar\"; webSocket.setExtraHeaders(headers);","title":"Supply extra HTTP headers."},{"location":"usage/#subprotocols","text":"You can specify subprotocols to be set during the WebSocket handshake. For more info you can refer to this doc . webSocket.addSubprotocol(\"appProtocol-v1\"); webSocket.addSubprotocol(\"appProtocol-v2\"); The protocol that the server did accept is available in the open info protocol field. std::cout << \"protocol: \" << msg->openInfo.protocol << std::endl;","title":"Subprotocols"},{"location":"usage/#automatic-reconnection","text":"Automatic reconnection kicks in when the connection is disconnected without the user consent. This feature is on by default and can be turned off. webSocket.enableAutomaticReconnection(); // turn on webSocket.disableAutomaticReconnection(); // turn off bool enabled = webSocket.isAutomaticReconnectionEnabled(); // query state The technique to calculate wait time is called exponential backoff . Here are the default waiting times between attempts (from connecting with ws connect ws://foo.com ) > Connection error: Got bad status connecting to foo.com, status: 301, HTTP Status line: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently #retries: 1 Wait time(ms): 100 #retries: 2 Wait time(ms): 200 #retries: 3 Wait time(ms): 400 #retries: 4 Wait time(ms): 800 #retries: 5 Wait time(ms): 1600 #retries: 6 Wait time(ms): 3200 #retries: 7 Wait time(ms): 6400 #retries: 8 Wait time(ms): 10000 The waiting time is capped by default at 10s between 2 attempts, but that value can be changed and queried. webSocket.setMaxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries(5 * 1000); // 5000ms = 5s uint32_t m = webSocket.getMaxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries();","title":"Automatic reconnection"},{"location":"usage/#websocket-server-api","text":"#include ... // Run a server on localhost at a given port. // Bound host name, max connections and listen backlog can also be passed in as parameters. ix::WebSocketServer server(port); server.setOnConnectionCallback( [&server](std::shared_ptr webSocket, std::shared_ptr connectionState) { webSocket->setOnMessageCallback( [webSocket, connectionState, &server](const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr msg) { if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Open) { std::cerr << \"New connection\" << std::endl; // A connection state object is available, and has a default id // You can subclass ConnectionState and pass an alternate factory // to override it. It is useful if you want to store custom // attributes per connection (authenticated bool flag, attributes, etc...) std::cerr << \"id: \" << connectionState->getId() << std::endl; // The uri the client did connect to. std::cerr << \"Uri: \" << msg->openInfo.uri << std::endl; std::cerr << \"Headers:\" << std::endl; for (auto it : msg->openInfo.headers) { std::cerr << it.first << \": \" << it.second << std::endl; } } else if (msg->type == ix::WebSocketMessageType::Message) { // For an echo server, we just send back to the client whatever was received by the server // All connected clients are available in an std::set. See the broadcast cpp example. // Second parameter tells whether we are sending the message in binary or text mode. // Here we send it in the same mode as it was received. webSocket->send(msg->str, msg->binary); } } ); } ); auto res = server.listen(); if (!res.first) { // Error handling return 1; } // Run the server in the background. Server can be stoped by calling server.stop() server.start(); // Block until server.stop() is called. server.wait();","title":"WebSocket server API"},{"location":"usage/#http-client-api","text":"#include ... // // Preparation // HttpClient httpClient; HttpRequestArgsPtr args = httpClient.createRequest(); // Custom headers can be set WebSocketHttpHeaders headers; headers[\"Foo\"] = \"bar\"; args->extraHeaders = headers; // Timeout options args->connectTimeout = connectTimeout; args->transferTimeout = transferTimeout; // Redirect options args->followRedirects = followRedirects; args->maxRedirects = maxRedirects; // Misc args->compress = compress; // Enable gzip compression args->verbose = verbose; args->logger = [](const std::string& msg) { std::cout << msg; }; // // Synchronous Request // HttpResponsePtr out; std::string url = \"https://www.google.com\"; // HEAD request out = httpClient.head(url, args); // GET request out = httpClient.get(url, args); // POST request with parameters HttpParameters httpParameters; httpParameters[\"foo\"] = \"bar\"; out = httpClient.post(url, httpParameters, args); // POST request with a body out = httpClient.post(url, std::string(\"foo=bar\"), args); // // Result // auto statusCode = response->statusCode; // Can be HttpErrorCode::Ok, HttpErrorCode::UrlMalformed, etc... auto errorCode = response->errorCode; // 200, 404, etc... auto responseHeaders = response->headers; // All the headers in a special case-insensitive unordered_map of (string, string) auto payload = response->payload; // All the bytes from the response as an std::string auto errorMsg = response->errorMsg; // Descriptive error message in case of failure auto uploadSize = response->uploadSize; // Byte count of uploaded data auto downloadSize = response->downloadSize; // Byte count of downloaded data // // Asynchronous Request // bool async = true; HttpClient httpClient(async); auto args = httpClient.createRequest(url, HttpClient::kGet); // Push the request to a queue, bool ok = httpClient.performRequest(args, [](const HttpResponsePtr& response) { // This callback execute in a background thread. Make sure you uses appropriate protection such as mutex auto statusCode = response->statusCode; // acess results } ); // ok will be false if your httpClient is not async","title":"HTTP client API"},{"location":"usage/#http-server-api","text":"#include ix::HttpServer server(port, hostname); auto res = server.listen(); if (!res.first) { std::cerr << res.second << std::endl; return 1; } server.start(); server.wait(); If you want to handle how requests are processed, implement the setOnConnectionCallback callback, which takes an HttpRequestPtr as input, and returns an HttpResponsePtr. You can look at HttpServer::setDefaultConnectionCallback for a slightly more advanced callback example. setOnConnectionCallback( [this](HttpRequestPtr request, std::shared_ptr /*connectionState*/) -> HttpResponsePtr { // Build a string for the response std::stringstream ss; ss << request->method << \" \" << request->uri; std::string content = ss.str(); return std::make_shared(200, \"OK\", HttpErrorCode::Ok, WebSocketHttpHeaders(), content); }","title":"HTTP server API"},{"location":"usage/#tls-support-and-configuration","text":"To leverage TLS features, the library must be compiled with the option USE_TLS=1 . Then, secure sockets are automatically used when connecting to a wss://* url. Additional TLS options can be configured by passing a ix::SocketTLSOptions instance to the setTLSOptions on ix::WebSocket (or ix::WebSocketServer or ix::HttpServer ) webSocket.setTLSOptions({ .certFile = \"path/to/cert/file.pem\", .keyFile = \"path/to/key/file.pem\", .caFile = \"path/to/trust/bundle/file.pem\", .tls = true // required in server mode }); Specifying certFile and keyFile configures the certificate that will be used to communicate with TLS peers. On a client, this is only necessary for connecting to servers that require a client certificate. On a server, this is necessary for TLS support. Specifying caFile configures the trusted roots bundle file (in PEM format) that will be used to verify peer certificates. - The special value of SYSTEM (the default) indicates that the system-configured trust bundle should be used; this is generally what you want when connecting to any publicly exposed API/server. - The special value of NONE can be used to disable peer verification; this is only recommended to rule out certificate verification when testing connectivity. For a client, specifying caFile can be used if connecting to a server that uses a self-signed cert, or when using a custom CA in an internal environment. For a server, specifying caFile implies that: 1. You require clients to present a certificate 1. It must be signed by one of the trusted roots in the file","title":"TLS support and configuration"},{"location":"ws/","text":"General ws is a command line tool that should exercise most of the IXWebSocket code, and provide example code. ws is a websocket tool Usage: ws [OPTIONS] SUBCOMMAND Options: -h,--help Print this help message and exit Subcommands: send Send a file receive Receive a file transfer Broadcasting server connect Connect to a remote server chat Group chat echo_server Echo server broadcast_server Broadcasting server ping Ping pong curl HTTP Client redis_publish Redis publisher redis_subscribe Redis subscriber cobra_subscribe Cobra subscriber cobra_publish Cobra publisher cobra_to_statsd Cobra to statsd cobra_to_sentry Cobra to sentry snake Snake server httpd HTTP server curl The curl subcommand try to be compatible with the curl syntax, to fetch http pages. Making a HEAD request with the -I parameter. $ ws curl -I https://www.google.com/ Accept-Ranges: none Alt-Svc: quic=\":443\"; ma=2592000; v=\"46,43\",h3-Q048=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q046=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q043=\":443\"; ma=2592000 Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:36:57 GMT Expires: -1 P3P: CP=\"This is not a P3P policy! See g.co/p3phelp for more info.\" Server: gws Set-Cookie: NID=188=ASwfz8GrXQrHCLqAz-AndLOMLcz0rC9yecnf3h0yXZxRL3rTufTU_GDDwERp7qQL7LZ_EB8gCRyPXGERyOSAgaqgnrkoTmvWrwFemRLMaOZ896GrHobi5fV7VLklnSG2w48Gj8xMlwxfP7Z-bX-xR9UZxep1tHM6UmFQdD_GkBE; expires=Wed, 08-Apr-2020 21:36:57 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; HttpOnly Transfer-Encoding: chunked Vary: Accept-Encoding X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-XSS-Protection: 0 Upload size: 143 Download size: 0 Status: 200 Making a POST request with the -F parameter. $ ws curl -F foo=bar https://httpbin.org/post foo: bar Downloaded 438 bytes out of 438 Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Connection: keep-alive Content-Encoding: Content-Length: 438 Content-Type: application/json Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:47:54 GMT Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade Server: nginx X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options: DENY X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Upload size: 219 Download size: 438 Status: 200 payload: { \"args\": {}, \"data\": \"\", \"files\": {}, \"form\": { \"foo\": \"bar\" }, \"headers\": { \"Accept\": \"*/*\", \"Content-Length\": \"7\", \"Content-Type\": \"application/x-www-form-urlencoded\", \"Host\": \"httpbin.org\", \"User-Agent\": \"ixwebsocket/7.0.0 macos ssl/OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018 zlib 1.2.11\" }, \"json\": null, \"origin\": \"155.94.127.118, 155.94.127.118\", \"url\": \"https://httpbin.org/post\" } Passing in a custom header with -H. $ ws curl -F foo=bar -H 'my_custom_header: baz' https://httpbin.org/post my_custom_header: baz foo: bar Downloaded 470 bytes out of 470 Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Connection: keep-alive Content-Encoding: Content-Length: 470 Content-Type: application/json Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:50:25 GMT Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade Server: nginx X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options: DENY X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Upload size: 243 Download size: 470 Status: 200 payload: { \"args\": {}, \"data\": \"\", \"files\": {}, \"form\": { \"foo\": \"bar\" }, \"headers\": { \"Accept\": \"*/*\", \"Content-Length\": \"7\", \"Content-Type\": \"application/x-www-form-urlencoded\", \"Host\": \"httpbin.org\", \"My-Custom-Header\": \"baz\", \"User-Agent\": \"ixwebsocket/7.0.0 macos ssl/OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018 zlib 1.2.11\" }, \"json\": null, \"origin\": \"155.94.127.118, 155.94.127.118\", \"url\": \"https://httpbin.org/post\" } connect The connect command connects to a websocket endpoint, and starts an interactive prompt. Line editing, such as using the direction keys to fetch the last thing you tried to type) is provided. That command is pretty useful to try to send random data to an endpoint and verify that the service handles it with grace (such as sending invalid json). ws connect wss://echo.websocket.org Type Ctrl-D to exit prompt... Connecting to url: wss://echo.websocket.org > ws_connect: connected Uri: / Handshake Headers: Connection: Upgrade Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:38:44 GMT Sec-WebSocket-Accept: 2j6LBScZveqrMx1W/GJkCWvZo3M= sec-websocket-extensions: Server: Kaazing Gateway Upgrade: websocket Received ping Received ping Received ping Hello world ! > Received 13 bytes ws_connect: received message: Hello world ! > Hello world ! > Received 13 bytes ws_connect: received message: Hello world ! ws connect 'ws://jeanserge.com/v2?appkey=_pubsub' Type Ctrl-D to exit prompt... Connecting to url: ws://jeanserge.com/v2?appkey=_pubsub > ws_connect: connected Uri: /v2?appkey=_pubsub Handshake Headers: Connection: Upgrade Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:45:28 GMT Sec-WebSocket-Accept: LYHmjh9Gsu/Yw7aumQqyPObOEV4= Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 Server: Python/3.7 websockets/8.0.2 Upgrade: websocket bababababababab > ws_connect: connection closed: code 1000 reason ws_connect: connected Uri: /v2?appkey=_pubsub Handshake Headers: Connection: Upgrade Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:45:44 GMT Sec-WebSocket-Accept: I1rqxdLgTU+opPi5/zKPBTuXdLw= Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 Server: Python/3.7 websockets/8.0.2 Upgrade: websocket Websocket proxy ws proxy_server --remote_host ws://127.0.0.1:9000 -v Listening on 127.0.0.1:8008 If you connect to ws://127.0.0.1:8008, the proxy will connect to ws://127.0.0.1:9000 and pass all traffic to this server. File transfer # Start transfer server, which is just a broadcast server at this point ws transfer # running on port 8080. # Start receiver first ws receive ws://localhost:8080 # Then send a file. File will be received and written to disk by the receiver process ws send ws://localhost:8080 /file/to/path HTTP Client $ ws curl --help HTTP Client Usage: ws curl [OPTIONS] url Positionals: url TEXT REQUIRED Connection url Options: -h,--help Print this help message and exit -d TEXT Form data -F TEXT Form data -H TEXT Header --output TEXT Output file -I Send a HEAD request -L Follow redirects --max-redirects INT Max Redirects -v Verbose -O Save output to disk --compress Enable gzip compression --connect-timeout INT Connection timeout --transfer-timeout INT Transfer timeout Cobra client and server cobra is a real time messenging server. ws has several sub-command to interact with cobra. There is also a minimal cobra compatible server named snake available. Below are examples on running a snake server and clients with TLS enabled (the server only works with the OpenSSL and the Mbed TLS backend for now). First, generate certificates. $ cd /path/to/IXWebSocket $ cd ixsnake/ixsnake $ bash ../../ws/generate_certs.sh Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus .....+++ .................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/trusted-ca-key.pem generated ./.certs/trusted-ca-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ..+++ .......................................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/trusted-server-key.pem Signature ok subject=/O=machinezone/O=IXWebSocket/CN=trusted-server Getting CA Private Key generated ./.certs/trusted-server-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ...................................+++ ..................................................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/trusted-client-key.pem Signature ok subject=/O=machinezone/O=IXWebSocket/CN=trusted-client Getting CA Private Key generated ./.certs/trusted-client-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ..............+++ .......................................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/untrusted-ca-key.pem generated ./.certs/untrusted-ca-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ..........+++ ................................................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/untrusted-client-key.pem Signature ok subject=/O=machinezone/O=IXWebSocket/CN=untrusted-client Getting CA Private Key generated ./.certs/untrusted-client-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus .....................................................................................+++ ...........+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/selfsigned-client-key.pem Signature ok subject=/O=machinezone/O=IXWebSocket/CN=selfsigned-client Getting Private key generated ./.certs/selfsigned-client-crt.pem Now run the snake server. $ export certs=.certs $ ws snake --tls --port 8765 --cert-file ${certs}/trusted-server-crt.pem --key-file ${certs}/trusted-server-key.pem --ca-file ${certs}/trusted-ca-crt.pem { \"apps\": { \"FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f\": { \"roles\": { \"_sub\": { \"secret\": \"66B1dA3ED5fA074EB5AE84Dd8CE3b5ba\" }, \"_pub\": { \"secret\": \"1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db\" } } } } } redis host: 127.0.0.1 redis password: redis port: 6379 As a new connection comes in, such output should be printed [2019-12-19 20:27:19.724] [info] New connection id: 0 Uri: /v2?appkey=_health Headers: Connection: Upgrade Host: 127.0.0.1:8765 Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 Sec-WebSocket-Key: d747B0fE61Db73f7Eh47c0== Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: json Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13 Upgrade: websocket User-Agent: ixwebsocket/7.5.8 macos ssl/OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018 zlib 1.2.11 To connect and publish a message, do: $ export certs=.certs $ cd /path/to/ws/folder $ ls cobraMetricsSample.json cobraMetricsSample.json $ ws cobra_publish --endpoint wss://127.0.0.1:8765 --appkey FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f --rolename _pub --rolesecret 1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db --channel foo --cert-file ${certs}/trusted-client-crt.pem --key-file ${certs}/trusted-client-key.pem --ca-file ${certs}/trusted-ca-crt.pem cobraMetricsSample.json [2019-12-19 20:46:42.656] [info] Publisher connected [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Connection: Upgrade [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Accept: rs99IFThoBrhSg+k8G4ixH9yaq4= [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Server: ixwebsocket/7.5.8 macos ssl/OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018 zlib 1.2.11 [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Upgrade: websocket [2019-12-19 20:46:42.658] [info] Publisher authenticated [2019-12-19 20:46:42.658] [info] Published msg 3 [2019-12-19 20:46:42.659] [info] Published message id 3 acked To use OpenSSL on macOS, compile with make ws_openssl . First you will have to install OpenSSL libraries, which can be done with Homebrew. Use make ws_mbedtls accordingly to use MbedTLS.","title":"Ws"},{"location":"ws/#general","text":"ws is a command line tool that should exercise most of the IXWebSocket code, and provide example code. ws is a websocket tool Usage: ws [OPTIONS] SUBCOMMAND Options: -h,--help Print this help message and exit Subcommands: send Send a file receive Receive a file transfer Broadcasting server connect Connect to a remote server chat Group chat echo_server Echo server broadcast_server Broadcasting server ping Ping pong curl HTTP Client redis_publish Redis publisher redis_subscribe Redis subscriber cobra_subscribe Cobra subscriber cobra_publish Cobra publisher cobra_to_statsd Cobra to statsd cobra_to_sentry Cobra to sentry snake Snake server httpd HTTP server","title":"General"},{"location":"ws/#curl","text":"The curl subcommand try to be compatible with the curl syntax, to fetch http pages. Making a HEAD request with the -I parameter. $ ws curl -I https://www.google.com/ Accept-Ranges: none Alt-Svc: quic=\":443\"; ma=2592000; v=\"46,43\",h3-Q048=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q046=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q043=\":443\"; ma=2592000 Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:36:57 GMT Expires: -1 P3P: CP=\"This is not a P3P policy! See g.co/p3phelp for more info.\" Server: gws Set-Cookie: NID=188=ASwfz8GrXQrHCLqAz-AndLOMLcz0rC9yecnf3h0yXZxRL3rTufTU_GDDwERp7qQL7LZ_EB8gCRyPXGERyOSAgaqgnrkoTmvWrwFemRLMaOZ896GrHobi5fV7VLklnSG2w48Gj8xMlwxfP7Z-bX-xR9UZxep1tHM6UmFQdD_GkBE; expires=Wed, 08-Apr-2020 21:36:57 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; HttpOnly Transfer-Encoding: chunked Vary: Accept-Encoding X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-XSS-Protection: 0 Upload size: 143 Download size: 0 Status: 200 Making a POST request with the -F parameter. $ ws curl -F foo=bar https://httpbin.org/post foo: bar Downloaded 438 bytes out of 438 Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Connection: keep-alive Content-Encoding: Content-Length: 438 Content-Type: application/json Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:47:54 GMT Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade Server: nginx X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options: DENY X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Upload size: 219 Download size: 438 Status: 200 payload: { \"args\": {}, \"data\": \"\", \"files\": {}, \"form\": { \"foo\": \"bar\" }, \"headers\": { \"Accept\": \"*/*\", \"Content-Length\": \"7\", \"Content-Type\": \"application/x-www-form-urlencoded\", \"Host\": \"httpbin.org\", \"User-Agent\": \"ixwebsocket/7.0.0 macos ssl/OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018 zlib 1.2.11\" }, \"json\": null, \"origin\": \"155.94.127.118, 155.94.127.118\", \"url\": \"https://httpbin.org/post\" } Passing in a custom header with -H. $ ws curl -F foo=bar -H 'my_custom_header: baz' https://httpbin.org/post my_custom_header: baz foo: bar Downloaded 470 bytes out of 470 Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Connection: keep-alive Content-Encoding: Content-Length: 470 Content-Type: application/json Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:50:25 GMT Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade Server: nginx X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options: DENY X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Upload size: 243 Download size: 470 Status: 200 payload: { \"args\": {}, \"data\": \"\", \"files\": {}, \"form\": { \"foo\": \"bar\" }, \"headers\": { \"Accept\": \"*/*\", \"Content-Length\": \"7\", \"Content-Type\": \"application/x-www-form-urlencoded\", \"Host\": \"httpbin.org\", \"My-Custom-Header\": \"baz\", \"User-Agent\": \"ixwebsocket/7.0.0 macos ssl/OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018 zlib 1.2.11\" }, \"json\": null, \"origin\": \"155.94.127.118, 155.94.127.118\", \"url\": \"https://httpbin.org/post\" }","title":"curl"},{"location":"ws/#connect","text":"The connect command connects to a websocket endpoint, and starts an interactive prompt. Line editing, such as using the direction keys to fetch the last thing you tried to type) is provided. That command is pretty useful to try to send random data to an endpoint and verify that the service handles it with grace (such as sending invalid json). ws connect wss://echo.websocket.org Type Ctrl-D to exit prompt... Connecting to url: wss://echo.websocket.org > ws_connect: connected Uri: / Handshake Headers: Connection: Upgrade Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:38:44 GMT Sec-WebSocket-Accept: 2j6LBScZveqrMx1W/GJkCWvZo3M= sec-websocket-extensions: Server: Kaazing Gateway Upgrade: websocket Received ping Received ping Received ping Hello world ! > Received 13 bytes ws_connect: received message: Hello world ! > Hello world ! > Received 13 bytes ws_connect: received message: Hello world ! ws connect 'ws://jeanserge.com/v2?appkey=_pubsub' Type Ctrl-D to exit prompt... Connecting to url: ws://jeanserge.com/v2?appkey=_pubsub > ws_connect: connected Uri: /v2?appkey=_pubsub Handshake Headers: Connection: Upgrade Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:45:28 GMT Sec-WebSocket-Accept: LYHmjh9Gsu/Yw7aumQqyPObOEV4= Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 Server: Python/3.7 websockets/8.0.2 Upgrade: websocket bababababababab > ws_connect: connection closed: code 1000 reason ws_connect: connected Uri: /v2?appkey=_pubsub Handshake Headers: Connection: Upgrade Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:45:44 GMT Sec-WebSocket-Accept: I1rqxdLgTU+opPi5/zKPBTuXdLw= Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 Server: Python/3.7 websockets/8.0.2 Upgrade: websocket","title":"connect"},{"location":"ws/#websocket-proxy","text":"ws proxy_server --remote_host ws://127.0.0.1:9000 -v Listening on 127.0.0.1:8008 If you connect to ws://127.0.0.1:8008, the proxy will connect to ws://127.0.0.1:9000 and pass all traffic to this server.","title":"Websocket proxy"},{"location":"ws/#file-transfer","text":"# Start transfer server, which is just a broadcast server at this point ws transfer # running on port 8080. # Start receiver first ws receive ws://localhost:8080 # Then send a file. File will be received and written to disk by the receiver process ws send ws://localhost:8080 /file/to/path","title":"File transfer"},{"location":"ws/#http-client","text":"$ ws curl --help HTTP Client Usage: ws curl [OPTIONS] url Positionals: url TEXT REQUIRED Connection url Options: -h,--help Print this help message and exit -d TEXT Form data -F TEXT Form data -H TEXT Header --output TEXT Output file -I Send a HEAD request -L Follow redirects --max-redirects INT Max Redirects -v Verbose -O Save output to disk --compress Enable gzip compression --connect-timeout INT Connection timeout --transfer-timeout INT Transfer timeout","title":"HTTP Client"},{"location":"ws/#cobra-client-and-server","text":"cobra is a real time messenging server. ws has several sub-command to interact with cobra. There is also a minimal cobra compatible server named snake available. Below are examples on running a snake server and clients with TLS enabled (the server only works with the OpenSSL and the Mbed TLS backend for now). First, generate certificates. $ cd /path/to/IXWebSocket $ cd ixsnake/ixsnake $ bash ../../ws/generate_certs.sh Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus .....+++ .................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/trusted-ca-key.pem generated ./.certs/trusted-ca-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ..+++ .......................................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/trusted-server-key.pem Signature ok subject=/O=machinezone/O=IXWebSocket/CN=trusted-server Getting CA Private Key generated ./.certs/trusted-server-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ...................................+++ ..................................................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/trusted-client-key.pem Signature ok subject=/O=machinezone/O=IXWebSocket/CN=trusted-client Getting CA Private Key generated ./.certs/trusted-client-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ..............+++ .......................................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/untrusted-ca-key.pem generated ./.certs/untrusted-ca-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ..........+++ ................................................+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/untrusted-client-key.pem Signature ok subject=/O=machinezone/O=IXWebSocket/CN=untrusted-client Getting CA Private Key generated ./.certs/untrusted-client-crt.pem Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus .....................................................................................+++ ...........+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) generated ./.certs/selfsigned-client-key.pem Signature ok subject=/O=machinezone/O=IXWebSocket/CN=selfsigned-client Getting Private key generated ./.certs/selfsigned-client-crt.pem Now run the snake server. $ export certs=.certs $ ws snake --tls --port 8765 --cert-file ${certs}/trusted-server-crt.pem --key-file ${certs}/trusted-server-key.pem --ca-file ${certs}/trusted-ca-crt.pem { \"apps\": { \"FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f\": { \"roles\": { \"_sub\": { \"secret\": \"66B1dA3ED5fA074EB5AE84Dd8CE3b5ba\" }, \"_pub\": { \"secret\": \"1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db\" } } } } } redis host: 127.0.0.1 redis password: redis port: 6379 As a new connection comes in, such output should be printed [2019-12-19 20:27:19.724] [info] New connection id: 0 Uri: /v2?appkey=_health Headers: Connection: Upgrade Host: 127.0.0.1:8765 Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 Sec-WebSocket-Key: d747B0fE61Db73f7Eh47c0== Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: json Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13 Upgrade: websocket User-Agent: ixwebsocket/7.5.8 macos ssl/OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018 zlib 1.2.11 To connect and publish a message, do: $ export certs=.certs $ cd /path/to/ws/folder $ ls cobraMetricsSample.json cobraMetricsSample.json $ ws cobra_publish --endpoint wss://127.0.0.1:8765 --appkey FC2F10139A2BAc53BB72D9db967b024f --rolename _pub --rolesecret 1c04DB8fFe76A4EeFE3E318C72d771db --channel foo --cert-file ${certs}/trusted-client-crt.pem --key-file ${certs}/trusted-client-key.pem --ca-file ${certs}/trusted-ca-crt.pem cobraMetricsSample.json [2019-12-19 20:46:42.656] [info] Publisher connected [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Connection: Upgrade [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Accept: rs99IFThoBrhSg+k8G4ixH9yaq4= [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_max_window_bits=15; client_max_window_bits=15 [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Server: ixwebsocket/7.5.8 macos ssl/OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2q 20 Nov 2018 zlib 1.2.11 [2019-12-19 20:46:42.657] [info] Upgrade: websocket [2019-12-19 20:46:42.658] [info] Publisher authenticated [2019-12-19 20:46:42.658] [info] Published msg 3 [2019-12-19 20:46:42.659] [info] Published message id 3 acked To use OpenSSL on macOS, compile with make ws_openssl . 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