UPDATE. Delete old question.

With great difficulty I managed to connect only after I found the file app.js.
I also corrected some of the code the application to work.
protected function joinHandler(event:Event):void
{
socket.send("USERNAME:" + loginForm.username.text);
vs.selectedIndex = 1; //add this line
}
And change:
socket = new FlashSocket("localhost:9202"); //instead of "ws://localhost:9202/socket.io/flashsocket"

But I still cannot connect to exchange messages between clients. Each client sends a message to the server (this is seen in the log console), but it is not sent to all participants in the chat.

How can change app.js that massage will send all cliens?

Thank you.

Need to use FlashSocket.IO without Flex. I am trying to just the fx:Script portion of the example in the README. This compiles fine, and connects to the server, but never handshakes. It throws this error: "Variable URLUtil not defined", when it tries to pull it it in the following lines from FlashSocket.as

var policyUrl:String = "xmlsocket://" + URLUtil.getServerName(wsUrl) + ":843";
return (URLUtil.getProtocol(this.callerUrl) + "://" +
URLUtil.getServerNameWithPort(this.callerUrl)).toLowerCase();

When the server restarts, the client losses the connection and doesn't reconnect.
Since a disconnection event is not thrown, there is no way to know that the client disconnected and also if there was, it's unclear as to how to achieve a re-connection.

I've noticed that while connected is true (even if the server went down), webSocket.socket.connected is false (hence it is more accurate).

How can a re-connection be done using this library?

Thanks,
Ofir

i am very eager to try out flashsocket.io. after several attempts with 0.6 and also your 0.7 swc i cant seem to connect. i also tried different server implementations with different version of socket.io 0.6 and 0.7. the closest results i got were from your 0.7 alpha swc together with socket.io 0.7.11. flash connected but ended with a "client not handshaken client should reconnect" warning. on other 0.7 tries i got away with the "unknown transport: flashsocket" warning.

any ideas what could have been missing?

regards

Requesting callbacks on events, per our quick email exchange.

Here's how it works in node:

Client:

socket.emit('test', { an: "object", from: "the client" }, function(response) {
//do stuff with response, which == { an: "object", from: "the server" }
});

Server:

socket.on('test', function(message, callback) {
//do stuff with message, which == { an: "object", from: "the client" }
callback({ an: "object", from: "the server" });
});

is 0.9 supported in the beta .swc as well?

where is the downloads section to get the beta.swc?

Any plan to update support for socket v0.7 ?

Hey I've been trying to compile the FlashSocketDemo.mxml file that you have here and I keep getting this error: "Error: Interface IWebSocketWrapper was not found". Here's my compile command:

mxmlc M:(source_path)\FlashSocketDemo.mxml -library-path+=M:(source_path)\libs\as3corelib.swc

I went through the files and IWebSocketWrapper is only referenced in one file in FlashSocket.as on line 23: "public class FlashSocket extends EventDispatcher implements IWebSocketWrapper". Is that supposed to be referenced anywhere else? Or am I compliling it incorrectly? Thanks.

Darryl

Hi,

When i use
socket = new FlashSocket("localhost:8080/socket");
I get discovery error

Node snippet:
(In app.js)
app.get('/socket', socket.handle);
app.post('/socket', socket.handle);

app.listen(8080, function() {
console.log('%s listening at %s', app.name, app.url);
});

var io = require('socket.io').listen(app);
exports.io = io;

(In routes)
exports.handle = function (req, res, next) {
console.log('In Handle'); //doesn't print this
io.sockets.on('connection', function(client){
console.log('Connection establiished');
});

Routing works just fine but flash socket is not able to discover the location.

Please advice.

Haven't fully debugged yet, but it seems large messages with long strings being sent from a client to a server do not work. In this case, I'm working with a large serialized json object that I need to pass to a server.

Could it be something along these lines:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1639312/avoiding-localconnections-40k-size-limit-when-data-object-may-be-larger-than-40

Randomly when connecting to an HTTPS/WSS host the following error is triggered:

GOT ALERT! type=0

Main Thread (Suspended)
com.hurlant.crypto.tls::TLSEngine/parseAlert
com.hurlant.crypto.tls::TLSEngine/parseOneRecord
com.hurlant.crypto.tls::TLSEngine/parseRecord
com.hurlant.crypto.tls::TLSEngine/dataAvailable

Hi, my team would like to use this but we noticed there isn't a license included in the project. Would you mind posting an MIT or other simple open source license to this? Thanks.

As we can see in our tests, multibyte data in Russian is not parsed by Flashsocket.io correctly. It's processed as a single byte encoding, therefore russian words sent from server as
"Ядерный перец"
accepted on the flash side as
"Яде�н�й пе�еѿ" (note 2 times more symbols).

In our project we've resolved this issue by using decodeURIComponent() instead of unescape() function in Flashsocket.as sources.

Thank you very much for the code but I have a problem

line 88 in FlashSocket.as

the statement var event:Object = (e.target as WebSocket).receiveEvents(); (line 88 in FlashSocket.as), says "Access of undefined receiveEvents".

Please help

This library currently supports server acknowledgment of client sent messages, but it does not support client acknowledgment of server sent messages.
https://github.com/learnboost/socket.io#getting-acknowledgements

This library works great for socket.io v0.9 and node v0.8.x, but I've upgraded my node version and found that socket.io will stall after "handshake authorized".

In testing the demo code on Node v0.10.x, sending data over websockets appears to show that the data is being received by the server, but not as a message. Instead it appears in the debug as the following:

debug - flashsocket received data packet 3:::[Message goes here]

The client, on other hand, does not appear to receive anything from the server.

Any ideas why this might be the case or how one might go about solving this issue?

I m trying to get this work since a week still no luck. And I didnt find any tutorial or sample using the latest version of socket.io. Plz upload a sample demo with both server and as3 code. Thanx a lot.

Is it possible to share with us a simple example of using this class.

Thank you

Hi! How to achieve load policyUrl?

CLIENT

this.client.init(*************, 3004,null, function():void{
            client.addEventListener(ClientEvent.IO_ERROR,onError);
            client.addEventListener(ClientEvent.SECURITY_ERROR,onError);
            client.addEventListener(ClientEvent.MESSAGE,onMessage);
            Log("Connected ");
            dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.CONNECT));

});

SERVER DEMON ON NODEJS

var net = require('net');

console.log("Secur server started");


var host = '***********';
var port = 843;

var server = net.createServer(function(stream) {
stream.setEncoding('utf8');
stream.on('error', function (extension) {  console.log('policy.socket.error '+extension);  stream.end();        stream.destroy(); });
stream.on('connect',function(){console.log("Connected"); });
stream.on('end', function(){console.log("DISConnected"); stream.end();});
stream.addListener('data', function(mess) {
    var polic = '<?xml version="1.0"?>';
        polic += '<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.adobe.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">';
        polic += '<!-- Policy file for xmlsocket://socks.mysite.com -->';
        polic += '<cross-domain-policy>';
        polic += '    <allow-access-from domain="*" to-ports="*" />';
        polic += '</cross-domain-policy>\0';
    stream.write(polic);
    console.log('Conn :: policy, ip: '+stream.remoteAddress);
});

});

server.listen(port, host);

I created new project and link to as3corelib.swc, FlashSocket.IO-0.7.x-Beta_1.swc, and WebSocket.swc.
I added sample code from README file. Tried using socket.io 8 and socket.io 7
I am using Flash CS5.5. I have noticed that if I run in debug mode it connects. Seems something is happening to fast and doesn't handshake properly.

-- I keep getting this message on the server:
info - socket.io started
debug - setting request GET /socket.io/1/flashsocket/1306369664936810977
debug - set heartbeat interval for client 1306369664936810977
debug - flashsocket writing 7:::1+0
warn - client not handshaken client should reconnect
info - transport end
debug - set close timeout for client 1306369664936810977
debug - cleared close timeout for client 1306369664936810977
debug - cleared heartbeat interval for client 1306369664936810977
debug - discarding transport

-- On the Client Side this is my output
webSocketLog: policy file: xmlsocket://dev.bigstar.tv:843
webSocketLog: connected
webSocketLog: request header:
GET / HTTP/1.1

Upgrade: WebSocket

Connection: Upgrade

Host: localhost:1935

Origin: flash.swf://undefined:undefined

Cookie:

Sec-WebSocket-Key1: A1 VO 96 &68 21X 3 5 4g=

Sec-WebSocket-Key2: # 16 m jd B 8 52 920- k

webSocketLog: sent key3: lY@Ù©H�?
webSocketLog: closed

-- server Code
var http = require('express'),
io = require('socket.io'),
sys = require('sys');

// socket.io
var socket = io.listen(1935, {transports:['websocket', 'flashsocket', 'xhr-polling']});

// Add a connect listener

socket.on('connection', function(client){

var interval = setInterval(function() {
  client.send('This is a message from the server!  ' + new Date().getTime());
},5000);
// Success!  Now listen to messages to be received
client.on('message',function(event){
  console.log('Received message from client!',event);
client.send('Echo: ' + event );
});
client.on('disconnect',function(){
  //clearInterval(interval);
  console.log('Client has disconnected');
});

});

Hi,

i'm trying to setup FlashSocket.IO but i never receive "connect" event.

This is the Debug:
info: handshake authorized RABQ67ORVyDDcCLbUP7x
debug: setting request GET /socket.io/1/flashsocket/RABQ67ORVyDDcCLbUP7x
debug: set heartbeat interval for client RABQ67ORVyDDcCLbUP7x
debug: client authorized for
myAppSay: "connection received" // console.log("connection received");

debug: emitting heartbeat for client RABQ67ORVyDDcCLbUP7x
debug: set heartbeat timeout for client RABQ67ORVyDDcCLbUP7x
debug: fired heartbeat timeout for client RABQ67ORVyDDcCLbUP7x
info: transport end (heartbeat timeout)
debug: set close timeout for client RABQ67ORVyDDcCLbUP7x
debug: cleared close timeout for client RABQ67ORVyDDcCLbUP7x
debug: discarding transport

I created a simple project of realtime game using this lib. Everything works fine on my PC (localhost). Temporarily place the project on a free hosting cloudno.de. Did not work.

I use these files: server.js - file server nodejs (this file has not changed for hosting, because this port (8275) was nominated my application by hosting):

var io = require('socket.io'),
http = require('http');

var fs = require('fs'),
util = require('util');

var url = require('url'),
path = require('path'),
mime = require('mime');

function findType(uri) {
var ext = uri.match(/.\w+$/gi);
if (ext && ext.length > 0) {
ext = ext[0].split(".")[1].toLowerCase();
return mime.lookup(ext);
}
return undefined;
}

function sendError(code, response) {
response.writeHead(code);
response.end();
return;
}

var app = http.createServer(function(request, response) {
  var uri = url.parse(request.url).pathname;
  if (uri === '/') {
    uri = '/index.html';
  } else if (uri === '/server.js') {
    sendError(404, response);
    return;
  }
  var _file = path.join(process.cwd(), uri);

  path.exists(_file, function(exists) {
    if (!exists) {
      sendError(404, response);
    } else {
      fs.stat(_file, function(err, stat) {
        var file = __dirname + uri,
            type = findType(uri),
            size = stat.size;
        if (!type) {
          sendError(500, response);
        }
        response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type':type + "; charset=utf-8", 'Content-Length':size});
        console.log("START");
        var rs = fs.createReadStream(file);
        util.pump(rs, response, function(err) {
          if (err) {
            console.log("ReadStream, WriteStream error for util.pump");
            response.end();
          }
        });
      });
    }
  });

});

var socket = io.listen(app, {transports:['websocket', 'flashsocket', 'xhr-polling']}),
buffer = [],
MAXBUF = 1024,
json = JSON.stringify;

var clients = [];
clients.usernames = function(client) {
return client.username;
}

socket.sockets.on('connection', function(client) {
console.log("CONNECTED");
client.on('message', function(data) {
//skipped more line of code

client.on('disconnect', function() {
if (client.username) {
client.json.broadcast.send({announcement:(client.username)+' left game', id:(client.id)});
}
var pos = clients.indexOf(client);
if (pos >= 0) {
clients.splice(pos, 1);
}
});});

if (!module.parent) {
app.listen(8275);
console.log("Socket-Chat listening on port 8275.. Go to http://:8275");
}

index.html - the client file. Here are some of its code to connect Websocket.

    <script type="text/javascript" src="web_socket.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Can you please tell whether I have changed the configuration for hosting? For reference, the server logs for hosting and for localhost. The difference is noticeable immediately, but it is not clear why this is happening.

Hosting console log:

27 Dec 09:19:49 - Cloudnode wrapped script starting (30128) at Tue Dec 27 2011 09:19:49 GMT+0100 (UTC)
[36minfo -[39m socket.io started 27 Dec 09:19:49 -
[INFO] Cloudnode listening on port: 8275 Socket-Chat listening on port 8275.. Go to http://:8275
START
START
START
START
[90mdebug -[39m served static content /socket.io.js
START
START
[90mdebug -
[39m client authorized
[36minfo -
[39m handshake authorized 1357476841432378537

Localhost console log:

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\14l>node server.js
info - socket.io started
Socket-Chat listening on port 8275.. Go to http://:8275
START
debug - served static content /socket.io.js
START
START
START
debug - client authorized
info - handshake authorized 3511308552126147045
debug - setting request GET /socket.io/1/flashsocket/3511308552126147045
debug - set heartbeat interval for client 3511308552126147045
debug - client authorized for
debug - flashsocket writing 1:: CONNECTED

After starting my application occurs handshake and everything stopped - the connection fails. I changed a lot of options - nothing helps.

I suspect that problem or socket.io (but I simply copied the module working with my computer), or Flash security policy. But how to use it in my particular case is not clear. Here is the module that should help (https://github.com/3rd-Eden/FlashPolicyFileServer), but how to integrate it into my project?

I would be very grateful for the clarification.