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Jack
Jack

Reputation: 15872

How to setup a Websocket connection on Windows Azure?

Does Azure support the use of WebSockets for .NET, if so how can a Websocket connection be initiated and handled?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5115

Answers (3)

Edward Brey
Edward Brey

Reputation: 41638

Web Sockets are now supported in Azure Web Sites. To use them, go to the site Configuration page in the management portal and turn on Web Sockets.

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Upvotes: 4

Uffe
Uffe

Reputation: 2275

As Sandrino says this is not possible unless you have win8/2012 with .net 4.5. However, that´s if you are running SignalR (or WebSockets in 4.5 of course).

We have been using websockets on Azure for quite some time now, and it is working really well. You can try it at http://live.xsockets.net or our really simple playground http://xfiddle.net

Regards Uffe

Upvotes: 0

Sandrino Di Mattia
Sandrino Di Mattia

Reputation: 24895

At the moment this isn't possible. You'll only get websockets when Azure (Cloud Services or Web Sites) supports .NET 4.5 on Windows Server 2012 (IIS8), which isn't the case at the moment.

Today .NET 4.5 is only available in Web Sites with Windows Server 2008 R2 (IIS7).

Note: Technically you can use other solutions (as opposed to IIS) to get websockets in your Azure application (like Pokein, SuperSocket, ...)

Upvotes: 0

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