javascript websocket clients

Question

Can a single html page, with embedded javascript, have more then a single websocket client ?? Or is it one socket per javascript thread ? I can't seem to find any documentation on this so I figured I'd ask the group.

Answer 1

Yes, there is a limit for Firefox. WebSockets are globally (across all open pages) limited to 200 concurrent connections.

Chrome does not appear to currently have a limit, but they're refactoring the WebSocket code and it looks like they'll be adding a limit of 30 connections per "group", which I assume means 30 connections per Origin.

Answer 2

Make as many as you need:

var Socket = new WebSocket(url);