General
ws is a command line tool that should exercise most of the IXWebSocket code, and provide example code.
$ ws --help
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
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
curl
$ 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