Erlang and websockets

Question

Some time ago I found Joe Armstrong's example on Erlang and websocket, but I couldn't get it work.

I fixed an error and a couple of warnings in the Erlang code but with Apache I wasn't able to get a good result.

Can anybody give me some hints with a really simple example? Do I need to put the web page with the JavaScript inside the Apache directory as for normal PHP files?

Answer 1

Joe's websocket example is outdated and relies on an obsolete version of the protocol. Up-to-date browsers use a more recent version (draft-00)

As of today, a nice erlang implementation is available from misultin. Tested and compatible with current browsers:

https://github.com/ostinelli/misultin/blob/master/src/misultin_websocket.erl