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Behrooz
Behrooz

Reputation: 2533

Connect to Socket.io server with standard web-socket client

Is it possible connect to socket.io server with standard web-socket client? When connecting to socket.io server through socket.io client, Url started with HTTP but for web-socket clients must use ws. so, if it is possible, how to connect to socket.io server and what is the url for connecting to socket.io server?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 2633

Answers (1)

jfriend00
jfriend00

Reputation: 708016

socket.io has a protocol on top of webSockets. If you're going to use socket.io on the server side, then you have to use a socket.io-compatible client on the other end.

So, you can't use a plain webSocket client to connect to a socket.io server.

The socket.io protocol is here.

Upvotes: 3

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