3 WebSocket

▼ |  | Net: Racket Networking Libraries

1 | URLs and HTTP
2 | URI Codec: Encoding and Decoding URIs
3 | Web Socket
4 | FTP: Client Downloading
5 | Send URL: Opening a Web Browser
6 | SMTP: Sending E-Mail
7 | sendmail: Sending E-Mail
8 | Headers: Parsing and Constructing
9 | IMAP: Reading Mail
10 | POP3: Reading Mail
11 | MIME: Decoding Internet Data
12 | Base 64: Encoding and Decoding
13 | Quoted-Printable: Encoding and Decoding
14 | DNS: Domain Name Service Queries
15 | NNTP: Newsgroup Protocol
16 | TCP: Unit and Signature
17 | TCP Redirect: tcp^ via Channels
18 | SSL Unit: tcp^ via SSL
19 | CGI Scripts
20 | Cookie: HTTP Client Storage
| Bibliography
| Index

► | 3 | Web Socket

3.1 | Client API
3.2 | Server API
3.3 | Connections
3.4 | Example

On this page:

3.1`` Client API
ws-url?
ws-connect
3.2`` Server API
ws-serve
3.3`` Connections
framing-mode
ws-conn?
open-ws-conn?
ws-conn-line
ws-conn-closed?
ws-conn-headers
ws-send!
ws-recv
ws-close!
3.4`` Example

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### 3`` WebSocket

( require net/websocket)

The net/websocket library provides utilities to run and communicate with WebSocket servers, as specified in the WebSocket protocol IETF draft as of August 16th, 2010.

This module provides the exports from net/websocket/client and net/websocket/server.

#### 3.1`` Client API

( require net/websocket/client)

( ws-url? x) → boolean?
x : any/c

Returns true if x is a url? and has a url-scheme equal to ws.

( ws-connect u [#:headers headers]) → open-ws-conn?
u : ws-url?
headers : ( listof header?) = empty

Connects to the WebSocket server specified by u, providing headers as additional headers. Returns the connection handle.

This module also provides the exports from net/websocket/conn.

#### 3.2`` Server API

( require net/websocket/server)

( ws-serve |  | conn-handle |  |  |  |
| [ | #:conn-headers conn-headers |  |  |  |
|  | #:port port |  |  |  |
|  | #:listen-ip listen-ip |  |  |  |
|  | #:max-waiting max-waiting |  |  |  |
|  | #:timeout timeout |  |  |  |
|  | #:confirmation-channel confirm-ch]) |  | → |  | (-> void)

conn-handle : ( open-ws-conn? any/c . -> . void)

| conn-headers |  | : |  | ( bytes? ( listof header?) . -> . ( values ( listof header?) any/c))
|  |  | = |  | ( λ (b hs) ( values empty ( void)))

port : tcp-listen-port? = 80
listen-ip : ( or/c string? false/c) = #f
max-waiting : integer? = 4
timeout : integer? = (* 60 60)
confirm-ch : ( or/c false/c async-channel?) = #f

Starts a WebSocket server where each new connection uses conn-headers to compute what headers the client receives based on the client’s request line and headers. conn-headers also returns a piece of state that will be passed to conn-handle as its second argument. After the connection handshake is finished, conn-handle receives the connection and is in sole control until the WebSocket connection completes.

All other arguments are used as in a Dispatching Server.

This module also provides the exports from net/websocket/conn.

#### 3.3`` Connections

( require net/websocket/conn)

( framing-mode) → ( symbols 'old 'new)
( framing-mode mode) → void?
mode : ( symbols 'old 'new)

Controls whether framing is as before August 16th, 2010 or after. (Most Web browsers currently support only 'old and they are incompatible, so you must choose the correct one.) Defaults to 'old.

( ws-conn? x) → boolean?
x : any/c

Returns true if x is a WebSocket connection.

( open-ws-conn? x) → boolean?
x : any/c

Returns true if x is an open WebSocket connection.

( ws-conn-line ws) → bytes?
ws : ws-conn?

Returns the request/response line of the WebSocket connection.

( ws-conn-closed? ws) → boolean?
ws : ws-conn?

Returns true if the WebSocket connection has been closed.

( ws-conn-headers ws) → ( listof header?)
ws : ws-conn?

Returns the headers of the WebSocket connection.

WebSocket connection support only blocking calls:

( ws-send! ws s) → void
ws : open-ws-conn?
s : string?

Sends s over ws.

( ws-recv ws) → ( or/c string? eof-object?)
ws : open-ws-conn?

Receives a string from ws. Returns eof if the other end closes the connection.

( ws-close! ws) → void
ws : open-ws-conn?

Closes ws.

#### 3.4`` Example

This is a WebSocket echo server compatible with the browser origin security model:

( ws-serve
#:port 8080
( λ (wsc _)
( let loop ()
( define m ( ws-recv wsc))
( printf "~a\n" m)
( unless ( eof-object? m)
( ws-send! wsc m)
(loop))))
#:conn-headers
( λ (_ hs)
( define origin
( header-value ( headers-assq* #"Origin" hs)))
( values
( list
( make-header #"Sec-WebSocket-Origin" origin)
( make-header #"Sec-WebSocket-Location"
#"ws://localhost:8080/"))
#f)))

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