Websockets

Review websockets, what they are and give a simple example

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1. WebSockets and Server Sent Events Tuesday, February 5, 13
2. WebSockets a̶n̶d̶ ̶S̶e̶r̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶S̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶E̶v̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ Tuesday, February 5, 13
3. WebSockets Tuesday, February 5, 13
4. Get to know me! • software developer (Ruby, Rails, C, etc) • http://blog.jonathanrwallace.com/about • jonathan.wallace@gmail.com • @jonathanwallace • All around swell guy Tuesday, February 5, 13
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6. Nature of HTTP • stateless • clients send requests • servers respond to requests Tuesday, February 5, 13
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8. “Bi-directional” communication • Comet • Long polling - “you got anything for me?” • Really only two, “streaming” and “long polling” Tuesday, February 5, 13
9. Issues? Tuesday, February 5, 13
10. Long polling Issues? • Header Overhead • Maximal Latency • Connection Establishment • Allocated Resources • Graceful Degradation • Timeouts • Caching Tuesday, February 5, 13
11. Streaming Issues? • Framing Techniques • Client Buffering • Network Intermediaries • Maximal Latency Tuesday, February 5, 13
12. WebSockets: how they work • client sends specially formatted HTTP request to server • server must support websocket protocol • that connection is upgraded to a websocket and you can send anything up and down that connection Tuesday, February 5, 13
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14. Specially formatted request 1 <script text='javascript'> 2 var ws = new WebSocket('ws://example.com:8080'); 3 </script> Tuesday, February 5, 13
15. Client side responsibilities 1 <script text='javascript'> 2 # ... 3 ws.onmessage = function(evt) { 4 $("#msg").append("<p>"+evt.data+"</p>"); 5 }; 6 ws.onclose = function() { debug("socket closed"); }; 7 ws.onopen = function() { 8 debug("connected..."); 9 ws.send("hello server"); 10 }; 11 # ... 12 </script> Tuesday, February 5, 13
16. WebSockets support? Tuesday, February 5, 13
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19. Ruby WebSockets server 1 require 'rubygems' 2 require 'em-websocket' 3 4 EventMachine::WebSocket.start( 5 :host => "0.0.0.0", :port => 8080) do |ws| 6 ws.onopen { ws.send "Hello Client!"} 7 ws.onmessage { |msg| ws.send "Pong: #{msg}" } 8 ws.onclose { puts "WebSocket closed" } 9 end Tuesday, February 5, 13
20. What can you send over WebSockets? Tuesday, February 5, 13
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22. WebSockets Demo Tuesday, February 5, 13
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24. Credits • http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/websockets/basics/ • http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/eventsource/basics/ • http://tenderlovemaking.com/2012/07/30/is-it-live.html • http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-reverseajax1/ • http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-loreto-http-bidirectional-07 • https://github.com/igrigorik/em-websocket • http://www.igvita.com/2009/12/22/ruby-websockets-tcp-for-the- browser/ Tuesday, February 5, 13
25. Images • http://www.flickr.com/photos/67828440@N05/galleries/ 72157632691816485/with/2985066755/#photo_2985066755 • http://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-optimize-your- site-with-gzip-compression/ Tuesday, February 5, 13
26. Get to know me! • software developer (Ruby, Rails, C, etc) • http://blog.jonathanrwallace.com/about • jonathan.wallace@gmail.com • @jonathanwallace • All around swell guy Tuesday, February 5, 13