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Ezra Henley
Ezra Henley

Reputation: 339

Websockets: Connection Refused, but both client and server work with other clients and servers

I have a Java WebSocket API using this library and a Swift iOS WebSocket client in my application using the Starscream library. When I test my Java server with WebSocketKing it works perfectly. When I test my Swift iOS client with ws://echo.websocket.org as the host it also works perfectly. But when I try to connect my client to my server using host localhost:5001 (or any other port like 8080) I get this error:

nw_socket_handle_socket_event [C2.1:1] Socket SO_ERROR [61: Connection refused]

I can't find anything online that has helped me track down why my server and client can't talk to each other. There is no authentication going on yet. nc -v localhost 5001 provides this message:

Connection to localhost port 5001 [tcp/commplex-link] succeeded!

So I officially have no idea wtf is going on lol. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1088

Answers (1)

Ezra Henley
Ezra Henley

Reputation: 339

Just realized my mistake: I was using a physical device as the simulator, which was trying to connect to "localhost:5001", which doesn't exist for the iPhone's localhost. I'm going to have to host this websocket server on AWS or something to test it out.

Upvotes: 1

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