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Derek
Derek

Reputation: 12388

Connecting socket.io over network for testing?

So I'm trying to test out my socket.io website and on the website I have 

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost:82/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>

....

var socket = io.connect('http://localhost:82');

just like on the socket.io example. This works fine when I test on my localhost machine, but when I use another machine on the same network, I can only get to the website, but socket won't connect. What am I doing wrong?

I am assuming that 

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost:82/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>

should be

<script type="text/javascript" src="/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>

but that doesn't work an the browser assumes that I want to retrieve that .js file page from the website rather than what it's supposed to do. Why does

<script type="text/javascript" src="/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>

not work on my website (xampp/codeigniter) when it's in the socket.io example client?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2005

Answers (1)

edzillion
edzillion

Reputation: 3671

Are you using XAMPP? You need to allow access remotely - new xammpp security concept

Anyway, I am doing something similar and this works for me - just change from localhost to the ip address of the machine running the web server.

<script type="text/javascript" src="192.168.1.23:8080/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
this.socket = new io.connect('192.168.1.23:8080');

Upvotes: 1

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