Using socket.io standalone without node.js

Question

(JavaScript newbie)

I am trying to build a JavaScript based client app that communicates with a server app over socket. I came across socket.io. Is it possible to use socket.io without any node.js dependencies?

I have cloned socket.io github and wrote a simple client html to connect to the server (Can post the code if required). But it does not connect to the server.

(Background info: We need a simple config client utility that runs on Win32 that communicates with a custom server that supports socket communication with a custom packet-format protocol. Instead of going through the usual MFC/.NET, we think HTML/JS/CSS makes a better solution. For this purpose, I have considered the following options:

1. Titanium: Works, but requires runtime to be installed
2. HTML5 WebSocket: Not widely supported - works on Chrome but requires IE10
3. socket.io: Trying to get it to work
4. Any other? (Can post this question as separate thread, if necessary) )

Answer 1

Establish a successful Socket.IO, your custom server must follow the spec, or use other server implementation of socket.io
https://github.com/learnboost/socket.io/wiki the In other languages part include some servers implementation of socket.io