http2ws

A simple and fast message subscription system that pushes messages in http and deliver to subscribed websocket clients. Ideal for notifications systems. Where the client is the browser and you have multiple api's sending messages.

Send a new message

curl -X POST http://localhost:5001/send -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"recipient":"gandalf","content":"my_message"}'

Consume the message

var exampleSocket = new WebSocket("ws://localhost:8765");
exampleSocket.onopen = function (event) {
    //list every message to the recipient gandalf
    exampleSocket.send('{"recipient": "'+"gandalf"+'"}');
};
exampleSocket.onmessage = function (event) {
  console.log(event.data)
}

Configuring

By default the webserver port is 5000 and websocket port is 8765 you can change it by setting the following variables

HTTP2WS_WEBSERVER_PORT=5001
HTTP2WS_WEBSOCKET_PORT=8764
HTTP2WS_WEBSOCKET_HOST=172.17.0.1

SSL

Set the following variables if you want to use ssl

HTTP2WS_SSL_CERT=/tmp/hmg/file.cert HTTP2WS_SSL_KEY=/tmp/hmg/file_key.cert python websocket.py

Container

docker run -p 5000:5000 -p 8765:8765 http2ws:latest

License

The content of this project itself is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, and the underlying source code used to format and display that content is licensed under the MIT license.