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AirConsole does not work with itch.io app browser #53
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A few notes on the itch app:
Here are the versions it currently ships with (tl;dr Chrome 61) I'm not familiar with how AirConsole works, so if anyone posts a few details about it I might be able to figure out what makes them not play together nice. |
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Can you expand on that a little bit? What are the technical reasons that make it so that games won't work unless the protocol happens to be As I mentioned, that protocol, in the app, behaves exactly like (We cannot serve games over a protocol named "https", because it would either interfere with the actual https protocol, or would involve generating+trusting a local certificate, which has proved problematic in the past). |
I'm not sure if this is something you want to support, but embedded games don't run correctly in the itch.io app browser. Behind the scenes it uses Chrome, but for some reason the the client closes the websockets prematurely and it never manages to communicate with server.
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When the game is launched, websocket connections are closed:
WebSocket connection to 'wss://server-url' failed: WebSocket is closed before the connection is established.
As a workaround, i display a splash screen of sorts that allows the user to launch the AirConsole game in their default browser:
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