Question

Which is best tcp socket server to testing html5websocket? I developing a html5socket based client that will interact with tcp. So I want first a testing server. I am good in PHP but not in sockets programming. So I used PHPwebsocket downloaded from google code. I tried it using its own client and server for testing but it suddenly disconnects and not work as intended so is there any other socket server to test HTML5 websocket client? Which one is better, I can use a python based, or java based tcp server or if in PHP then that can be more convenient. And please tell me what else I need to test HTML5 websocket. I am newbie in sockets. So my concepts are not so clear.

thanks for any advise.

Answer 1

If you want to self host then:

• pywebsocket – Python
• jwebsocket – Java
• jetty with WebSockets – Java

You could connect to the Pusher hosted WebSocket API to see if you can connect. More information on the endpoints and Pusher protocol here:
http://pusher.com/docs/pusher_protocol

You would need to sign up for a free Pusher sandbox account to do this though.