Re:SockJS – WebSocket emulation (2011)
by mmastrac on Saturday November 24, 2012 @01:10PM
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BTW, just an additional note after reading through some of the mailing lists.
Flash sockets don't necessarily require port 843 to work - there are ways around that and it works quite well in the latest engine.io source. We use port 10000 in our setup and the client doesn't even attempt to connect to 843. We also use HAProxy to serve the flash policy file directly, which is extremely fast.
I don't necessarily think that the Flash transport is bad myself, but I can definitely understand why you wouldn't want to implement it.
Flash sockets don't necessarily require port 843 to work - there are ways around that and it works quite well in the latest engine.io source. We use port 10000 in our setup and the client doesn't even attempt to connect to 843. We also use HAProxy to serve the flash policy file directly, which is extremely fast.
I don't necessarily think that the Flash transport is bad myself, but I can definitely understand why you wouldn't want to implement it.