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scorpio1441
scorpio1441

Reputation: 3088

Node.js: Running example of Chat?

Trying to setup an example for node.js chat on Windows x64.

Command line:

D:\Websites\dev\chat>node server.js
Server at http://127.0.0.1:8001/

Now when server part runs, trying http://dev/chat/index.html

After submitting Name, it gives me "error connecting to server".

Same error message on http://chat.nodejs.org/

Does the thing actually work? =)

Do I need to set up an Apache's mod_proxy to handle /join to port 8001?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 137

Answers (1)

Jonathan Lonowski
Jonathan Lonowski

Reputation: 123453

Some of the issues are with using http://dev/chat/index.html and also, I suspect, with:

Do I need to set up an Apache's mod_proxy to handle /join to port 8001?

Node's http module is more for creating the server than it is for integrating with other servers like Apache. (It's possible, e.g. iisnode, but not the default.)

While node server.js is running, you should be able to access index.html via either:

http://localhost:8001/
http://127.0.0.1:8001/

Then, /join, /recv, /send, etc. should be able to route through the same origin.

Otherwise, using http://dev/ has 2 problems:

  1. Requests will route based on the current address. For example, /join will request http://dev/join rather than http://127.0.0.1:8001/join, likely resulting in a 404 response. And, even if you modified the client script to specify the origin...

  2. Same-origin policy. Pages requested from http://dev/ cannot make Ajax requests to http://127.0.0.1:8001 without exceptions, which this demo does not have established.

Upvotes: 1

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