Socket.io connection url?

Question

I have the current setup:

1. Nodejs Proxy (running http-reverse-proxy) running on port 80.
2. Rails server running on port 3000
3. Nodejs web server running on port 8888

So any request starting with /nodejs/ will be redirected to nodejs web server on 8888.

Anything else will be redirected to the rails server on port 3000.

Currently Socket.io requires a connection url for io.connect.

Note that /nodejs/socket.io/socket.io.js is valid and returns the required socket.io client js library.

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However, I am not able to specify connection_url to /nodejs/ on my server.

I have tried http://myapp.com/nodejs and other variants but I am still getting a 404 error with the following url http://myapp/socket.io/1/?t=1331851089106

Is it possible to tell io.connect to prefix each connection url with /nodejs/ ?

Answer 1

As of Socket.io version 1, resource has been replaced by path. Use :

var socket = io('http://localhost', {path: '/nodejs/socket.io'}); 

See: http://blog.seafuj.com/migrating-to-socketio-1-0

Answer 2

you can specify resource like this:

var socket = io.connect('http://localhost', {resource: 'nodejs'}); 

by default resource = "socket.io"