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Hi I have a running socket server written with PHP.
The server is listening for connections.. any idea how my client(written in javascript) is going to connect to the server and send data to it?
PS: I only know how to connect a php client to the socket server but unsure how to connect a javascript client.
Thanks all for your time.
Shortly saying – you can’t do that – it would be a security breach to let client side code open socket connections.
However, you could simulate that – send your data to another PHP page as an AJAX request, then make that PHP page communicate through the socket.
Update 2017:
In the mean time, websockets became a thing. Please note that the websocket protocol is a different thing than generic networking sockets