websocket.send() parameter

Question

Usually, we only put the data we want to send as websocket.send() method's parameter, but I want to know whether there are other parameters like IP that we can put inside the brackets. Can we use it this way:

websocket.send(ip, data);  // send data to this ip address 

Or I should call other methods?

Answer 1

As I understand it, you want the server be able to send messages through from client 1 to client 2. You cannot directly connect two clients because one of the two ends of a WebSocket connection needs to be a server.

This is some pseudocodish JavaScript:

Client:

var websocket = new WebSocket("server address");  websocket.onmessage = function(str) {   console.log("Someone sent: ", str); };  // Tell the server this is client 1 (swap for client 2 of course) websocket.send(JSON.stringify({   id: "client1" }));  // Tell the server we want to send something to the other client websocket.send(JSON.stringify({   to: "client2",   data: "foo" })); 

Server:

var clients = {};  server.on("data", function(client, str) {   var obj = JSON.parse(str);    if("id" in obj) {     // New client, add it to the id/client object     clients[obj.id] = client;   } else {     // Send data to the client requested     clients[obj.to].send(obj.data);   } });