[Development] [Feature Request] Websockets

[Richard Gerd Kuesters]

Hi all. Sorry for dragging this subject again, but here we go.

A couple of things got me thinking about the WebSocket implementation:

1. Almost (if not all) web browser network interactions (HTTP, FTP 
(limited), file) are created by QNetworkAccessManager - which also 
provides proxy configuration, etc etc;
2. I believe that a websocket client would be directly attached to this 
network behaviour; it makes no sense to have a "headless" websocket in 
Qt - why not use a conventional socket? I think it might be useful, but 
just in some special cases. Other thing is: as I was looking into webkit 
source code, it already has a websocket client implementation. That 
brings another question: why is it there, after all? Why not in the 
network core?
3. About the websocket server: it is, in fact, a new implementation for Qt.

I'm not trying to be a pain in the a**, just the devil's advocate, 
random thoughts on the direction this intend to go.


Best regards,
Richard.



On 08/27/2013 11:46 AM, Juergen Bocklage-Ryannel wrote:
> On 14.08.13 5:54 PM, Kurt Pattyn wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I opensourced a Qt based module that implements the web socket protocol. The repository can be found here: https://github.com/KurtPattyn/QWebSockets.
>> I have 2 questions:
>> 1. Is there any interest in adding this to Qt?
> +1 I'm very interested. I'm interested using WebSocket in QML/JS in
> combination with NodeJs. I can see a great potential there.
>
> Another Qt WebSocket implementation
> (https://github.com/vinipsmaker/tufao) with an HTTP Server.
>
> / juergen
>
>> 2. If so, should this be added to QtNetwork or is a add-on preferred?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Kurt Pattyn
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