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WebSocket

Introduction

• The Web becomes more and more

• Necessity of evolution to a platform for real-time data


exchange.
• Web Socket technology is the fundamental.
Web Sockets – Technology

• Websocket is a protocol providing communications


channels over a single TCP connection.
• Bidirectional
• Full-duplex
• Permanent TCP connections 4oo times less overhead ⅓
of latency.
• Standardized in HTML5 by W3C and IETF protects
investments
• Single TCP port salves 50% server ressources
• Its only relationship to HTTP is that its handshake is
interpreted by HTTP servers as an Upgrade request.
Web Sockets – Technology

• What else?
• Designed for interactive Web Applications
• Open for all kind of stationary and mobile browser
based and native apps.
• Not just a protocol, but a new paradigm
Request/Response Real-Time Comm.
Web Sockets – Concept

The Concept:
• Framework vs. Client/Server
• 3rd Party Engines and Servers
• Message Routing, Stream, Send, Broadcast, Events,
Channels
• Tokens and Plug-ins
• Listeners and Apps
• Filters and Encryption
Web Sockets

• Works when:
• server and/or client need to send data often
• browser support for WebSocket can be relied upon or
fallbacks can be used

• Falls short when:


• fallbacks can't be relied upon
Typical WebSocket architecture
How WebSocket Work?

• WebSocket provide a persistent connection between a


client and server that both parties can use to start
sending data at any time.
• The client establishes a WebSocket connection through
a process.
• Here is a simplified example of the initial request
headers.
How WebSocket Work?

• If the server supports the WebSocket protocol, it agrees


to the upgrade and communicates this through
an Upgrade header in the response.
• handshake is complete the initial HTTP connection is
replaced by a WebSocket connection.
• Websockets can transfer as much data as you like
without incurring the overhead associated with
traditional HTTP requests.
• Send messages in both directions simultaneously
Web Sockets API

• Very simple API:


• WebSocket - constructor that opens a connection to
server.
• onopen - event handler that fires when connection has
been established.
• onmessage - event handler that fires when receiving
data.
• onerror - event handler that fires when there is an error.
• onclose - event handler that fires when the server is
closing the connection.
• send - send data to server.
• close - close socket.
WebSocket Frames

• Have a few header bytes


• Text or binary data
• Frames are masked from client to server
Websocket can improve Web application development and execution

• WebSocket is part of HTML5 and EE7 Technologies.


• It is designed to make two-way, full duplex, long lived
communications between two web applications.
• WebSocket is efficient to use and easy to develop.
• It can be used as a replacement for http polling and http
long polling solutions.
• The WebSocket protocol, which assumes TCP/IP or
TCP/IP-like capabilities underneath it, is defined in RFC
6455.
• WebSocket pre-reqs.
• Servlet 3.1 capabilities to run inside a web server.
Why WebSocket? WebSocket is about…

• Performance
• WebSocket makes real-time communication much more
efficient.
• Simplicity
• WebSocket makes communication between a client and
server over the web much simpler.
• Standards
• WebSocket is an underlying network protocol that enables
you to build other standard protocols on top of it.
• HTML5
• WebSocket is part of an effort to provide advanced
capabilities to HTML5 applications in order to compete with
other platforms.
Advantages and Disadvantages WebSocket

Advantages:
• Supports Duplex communication
• Faster than HTTP
• Increased Client and Server Communication Efficiency
• Replacement of HTTP
• Uses TCP

Disadvantages:
• Browser must be fully HTML5 compliant
• Takes over the communications protocol between the client
and the server for a particular connection.
Applications of Websockets

• Social feeds
• Multiplayer games
• Collaborative editing/coding
• Click stream data

Example real-world uses:


• real-time chat application
• event-based in-page analytics
• more things
Future of Websocket

• New Dimension of Online-Collaboration


• New Level of online-Entertainment
• New opportunity for online Education
• New social Participation and Contribution
Socket vs Websocket

• WebSocket typically run from browsers connecting to


Application Server over a protocol similar to HTTP that
runs over TCP/IP. So they are primarily for Web
Applications that require a permanent connection to its
server.

• Sockets are more powerful and generic. They run


over TCP/IP but they are not restricted to browsers
or HTTP protocol. They could be used to implement any
kind of communication.

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