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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute CSCI-4220 – Network Programming David Goldschmidt, Ph.D. HTML5 WebSockets {week 13 }. Are you connected?. The Internet (1969) is a network that’s Global Decentralized Redundant Made up of many different types of machines. Browsing the Web.
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute CSCI-4220 – Network Programming David Goldschmidt, Ph.D. HTML5 WebSockets{week 13}
Are you connected? • The Internet (1969) is a network that’s • Global • Decentralized • Redundant • Made up of many different types of machines
Browsing the Web from Fluency with Information Technology, 4th edition by Lawrence Snyder, Addison-Wesley, 2010, ISBN 0-13-609182-2
check out http://www.rpi.edu/academics/commencement/ The World Wide Web • Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Weaving the Web • The World Wide Web (or just Web) is: • Global • Decentralized • Redundant (sometimes) • Made up of Web pagesand interactive Web services • How many Web pages are on the Web?
AJAX? • AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) provides Web clients a means to send mini-requests to the Web server • Via the XMLHttpRequest object • Removes need to reload entire page • Server has no way to notify the browserunless the client makes a request
see http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/for more details HTML5 WebSocket protocol • WebSockets is a big step forward for HTML • Two-way communication without expensive/annoying client-side polling • Ideal for low-latency persistent connections • e.g. for real-time Web applications • Only requires 2 bytes of overhead per message • Requires server-side support • e.g. via JavaScript or Python on the Web server
see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455for more details WebSocket Upgrade handshake • To establish a WebSockets connection, the client requests (via HTTP) an upgrade: GET /chat HTTP/1.1 Host: www.rpi.edu Upgrade: websocket Connection: Upgrade Sec-WebSocket-Key: 7cxQRnWs91xJW9T0QLSuVQ== Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13 etc. -- blank line --
see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455for more details WebSocket Upgrade handshake • The server acknowledges the request: • Once connected, data is transmitted (bidirectionally) via frames HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols Upgrade: websocket Connection: Upgrade Sec-WebSocket-Accept: ZPw+oQ5cCHEzxVXd0OdijIPDYWU= etc. -- blank line --
see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455for more details WebSocket framing • Data is transmitted via frames, which may be sent by client or server at any time
see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455for more details WebSocket frame bits • The FIN bit indicates whether this is the final fragment of a message • The 4-bit opcode field specifieshow to interpret the payload • e.g. text, binary, ping, pong, etc. • The MASK bit indicates whetherthe frame is masked (1) or not (0) • All client-to-server frames must be masked....
see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455for more details WebSocket masking • When the MASK bit is set, a 32-bit mask is used to transform each payload byte • Masking and unmasking algorithms are identical because of XOR operation: • Security feature or too much overhead? foreach index j in payload: data[j] = data[j] XOR mask[jMOD 4]
see http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/for more details WebSockets client code • Open a WebSockets connection to a specified WebSockets server: // JavaScript client-side code example // Create new WebSocket object var url = "ws://servername.edu:8787/path"; var socket = new WebSocket( url ); // socket.readyState property indicates // the current status of the connection // (see next slide) Use “wss” for a secure connection
see http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/for more details WebSockets readyState • The readyState property is a number: • 0 (socket.CONNECTING): client is establishing the connection to the server • 1 (socket.OPEN): client is connected; use send() and an onmessage event handler to communicate • 2 (socket.CLOSING): the connection is in the process of being closed • 3 (socket.CLOSED): connection is closed
see http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/for more details WebSockets client code • WebSockets API is event-driven (onopen, onmessage, onerror, onclose): // JavaScript client-side code example (continued) // Opening message (sent once) var msg = "ME IS goodatenglish"; socket.onopen = function() { socket.send( msg ); } // Listen for incoming message from server socket.onmessage = function( msg ) { alert( "Server says: " + msg ); }
see http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/for more details WebSockets server side • On the server side, we need a server that supports WebSockets • mod_pywebsocket: a Python-based module for Apache • Netty: a Java network framework that includes WebSocket support • node.js: a server-side JavaScript framework that supports WebSocket server implementation http://code.google.com/p/pywebsocket/ http://www.jboss.org/netty http://nodejs.org/