Topic: Request for mod_websocket_tcp_proxy

[davidng]

Thanks for your great work on compiling the apache-websocket.

Is it possible to compile this as well ?
http://blog.alex.org.uk/2012/02/16/using-apache-websocket-to-proxy-tcp-connection/

It is a example of the apache-websocket.
What this does is: Proxy a websocket, so that application like nodejs will work at the same port as apache.
1: apache listen at port 80,
2: nodejs listen at port 8080,
3: http://localhost/chat.htm is a socket.io, and make a websocket connection to apache port 80 with the path http://localhost/socket.io/xxxxx
4: when apache detect the path /socket.io/, it will proxy this websocket connection to port 8080.
5: the nodejs get the request and response back.
6: the apache websocket proxy get the response, and send the result to the client.
7: the http://localhost/chat.htm display the result.

The latest source can be download at http://blog.alex.org.uk/wp-uploads/extility-libapache2-mod-websocket.tar.gz

[Steffen]

This is a hacked Git version, and has on older date 19 February versus 5 March. Plus it includes mod_websocket_tcp_proxy mod_websocket_vnc_proxy and other changes in the sources.

He says it is a fork: What I did was fork my own code.

Also : Apologies for not giving you this in git format but it’s currently in work svn, which is not helpful, and I’ve no time to go fiddle with git now.

mod_websocket_tcp_proxy is not building with the Git version, given errors.

So better to wait when it appears in Git https://github.com/disconnect/apache-websocket , looks like he is planning that.

Steffen

[davidng]

I have look all over the internet, it seems mod_websocket_tcp_proxy is the only "modifed" module which proxy the websocket within apache.

Is it possible to make a exception and compile this module as a modified version ?
http://blog.alex.org.uk/wp-uploads/extility-libapache2-mod-websocket.tar.gz

[Steffen]

As I said it is not building and policy is that we do not change code.

I shall contact the author.

Steffen

[davidng]

Thanks, you are the best.

[Steffen]

Get an answer from the Author, he has not a Windows. dev environment and looks he is not taken action, what I understand.

Looked at his code, it is not that clean code. And Visual C++ is mostly more strict then compilers on other platforms.

Steffen

[davidng]

oh... too bad.