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diff --git a/third_party/websockify/docs/notes b/third_party/websockify/docs/notes new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b3cc0cfb --- /dev/null +++ b/third_party/websockify/docs/notes @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Some implementation notes: + +There is an included flash object (web-socket-js) that is used to +emulate websocket support on browsers without websocket support +(currently only Chrome has WebSocket support). + +Javascript doesn't have a bytearray type, so what you get out of +a WebSocket object is just Javascript strings. Javascript has UTF-16 +unicode strings and anything sent through the WebSocket gets converted +to UTF-8 and vice-versa. So, one additional (and necessary) function +of wsproxy is base64 encoding/decoding what is sent to/from the +browser. + +Building web-socket-js emulator: + +cd include/web-socket-js/flash-src +mxmlc -static-link-runtime-shared-libraries WebSocketMain.as |