I am currently experiencing with Websockets.
By reviewing some active projects/implementations like einaros/ws (and others as well) I found out that they implement the server their own. Instead of using the node net module which provides a tcp server. Is there a reason for this approach?
https://github.com/einaros/ws/blob/master/lib/WebSocketServer.js
Regards
Update:
var server = net.createServer(function(c) {
c.on('data', function(data) {
// data is a websocket fragment which has to get parsed
});
// transformToSingleUtfFragment is building a websocket valid
// byte fragment which contains hello as application payload
// and sets the right flags so the receiver knows we have a single text fragment
c.write(transformToSingleUtfFragment('hello'));
c.pipe(c);
});
server.listen(8124, function() { //'listening' listener
console.log('server bound');
});