From: Bo <boaz@2be.co.il>
To: unicorn-public@bogomips.org
Subject: Please join the Rack Specification discussion for `env['upgrade.websocket']`
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 19:49:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58D32D89-4523-436E-8C0E-FA8F4E7AFFB2@plezi.io> (raw)
Please join the Rack Specification discussion for `env['upgrade.websocket']`
I represent an effort to extend Rack so that it allows server-side websocket upgrade implementation support and pure Rack websocket applications.
This new Rack feature proposal is gaining support, with over 42 support votes in the [original Rack discussion thread](https://github.com/rack/rack/issues/1093).
You may have read [my blog post about this](https://bowild.wordpress.com/2016/07/31/the-dark-side-of-the-rack/) or [the reddit discussion](https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/4vgdlc/the_dark_side_of_the_rack_and_websockets_dreams/).
This proposal simplifies Websocket applications by leaving all the network complexity were it is (with the application's web server), allowing application programmers to focus on their application logic.
Using [the proposed specification](https://github.com/boazsegev/iodine/issues/6), a pure Rack Websocket echo server could be written as simply as:
```ruby
# this is a toy example.
class MyEcho
def initialize(env = nil)
# optional initialization
end
def on_message(data)
write "Echo: #{data}"
end
end
app = Proc.new do |env|
if env['upgrade.websocket?'] && env['HTTP_UPGRADE'] =~ /websocket/i
env['upgrade.websocket'] = MyEcho.new(env) # or simply `MyEcho`
[ 0, {'X-Header': 'data'}, [] ]
else
[200, { 'Content-Length' => '12' }, ['He11o World!']]
end
end
run app
```
There's [a working Gist chatroom example](https://gist.github.com/boazsegev/1466442c913a8dd4271178cab9d98a27).
I invite you to join [the discussion](https://github.com/rack/rack/issues/1093) and help shape the [proposed specification](https://github.com/boazsegev/iodine/issues/6).
next reply other threads:[~2016-08-05 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-05 23:49 Bo [this message]
2016-08-06 1:01 ` Please join the Rack Specification discussion for `env['upgrade.websocket']` Eric Wong
2016-08-06 3:09 ` Boaz Segev
2016-08-06 4:10 ` Michael Fischer
2016-08-06 7:37 ` Boaz Segev
2016-08-09 1:08 ` Sam Saffron
2016-08-09 2:42 ` Eric Wong
2016-08-09 3:17 ` Boaz Segev
2016-08-06 4:59 ` Eric Wong
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