This module adds a new Transport to Socket.io called "nodeTransport", with which you can make socket.io connections between instances of nodes. The way this is done is quite similar to the xhr-multipart transport. There is also a module from remy called Socket.io-node-client, which depends on webSocket transport.

• a patched version of socket.IO-Node. Unfortunately right now this is not part of the official release yet. I have come up however with an architecture, thats needs nearly no changes to Socket.IO, and have started a pull request. I will update to the official version of socket.io-Node as soon as this modification is in the master tree.

To install and run do the following

git clone https://github.com/dotmaster/node2node-socket.io node2node-socket.io
git submodule update --init # this clones the patched version of socket.io

On the server:

var http = require('http'), 
		io = require('./path/to/node2node-socket.io'),
		
server = http.createServer(function(req, res){
	// your normal server code
	res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
	res.end('<h1>Hello world</h1>');
});

server.listen(80);
		
// socket.io, I choose you
var socket = io.listen(server);

socket.on('connection', function(client){
  // new client is here!
  client.on('message', function(){ … })
  client.on('disconnect', function(){ … })
});

On the client:

io = require('node2node-socket.io')

var Client = new io.nodeClient('0.0.0.0', 1234);
Client.connect(); //is async!! but send requests will buffers up if no connection there yet
Client.on('connect', function(){...})
Client.on('message', function(client){...})
Client.on('disconnect', function(){...})  

NodeClient features a client side heartbeat function, which means that if the server was to hang up, the client would get a timeout too and will try to reconnect in an exponentially augmenting time interval until a maximum of retries is reached.

Some more 'error' events are added to the Client Object, so you can subscribe to them. The error Object always has a type and a message field.

Logging can be turned on/off in nodeClient by passing an option to the nodeClient like new io.nodeClient('0.0.0.0', 1234, {logging: true})

NEW from 0.0.2! Now uses nodeBase to do coherent logging.

• reconnect-failed //emitted after all reconnection attempts failed and we are not trying to connect anymore, until manualConnect() is called
• reconnecting
• disconnect
• connect

• connect()
• disconnect()
• manualConnect() ... like connect, but resets the retry timeout and status variable first

• connected
• connecting
• reconnecting

#options

• logging: true,
• logLevel: 'ALL'

socket.io specific options

• reconnect: true,
• secure: false,
• timeout: 25000,// if no heartbeat message is received in this time frame, we consider the client disconnected
• resource: 'socket.io'
• maxReconnectionAttempts: 10,
• reconnectionDelay: 500

• a static function called addTransport is exposed to the outside world to add new transports to socket.io
• the Client base class of every transport is exposed to the outside world

• Gregor Schwab <[email protected]> (dotmaster)

• Guillermo Rauch <[email protected]> (Guille)

• Arnout Kazemier (3rd-Eden)

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