Can we use it with websockets?

[waqqasjabbar]

Hi,
I would like to use the library with Boost::Beast websockets. How can I do that?

[qchateau]

Hi, nice suggestion. I've never tried it.
Both the client and the server are designed to be transport agnostic so it may work (or almost work).

Clients are constructed with a connected socket, maybe it will work out of the box if you construct it with a websocket.

Servers are constructed with an acceptor so there are chances it would work as well.

As websockets are not standard sockets, I expect a few API incompatibilities though. Feel free to try it out if you'd like to tinker with packio.

I'll try to find some time to test it on my own, and maybe officially support it, with unit tests and such

[qchateau]

I've taken a quick look at this tonight and it does not seem that simple. I'd probably need to add an abstraction layer between packio and asio to allow customization.
Not sure when I'll find time for that, but that may be the next improvement of packio.

[qchateau]

Hey, to keep you up to date, I've been working on websockets and I've ironed out most bugs. It should be available pretty soon. By the way my guess is that packio will offer SSL support soon as well as supporting websockets and SSL have a lot in common (intermediary transport layer)

[qchateau]

I've officially added support for websockets (which means they are part of the unit tests). I'm planning on adding support for SSL, cleaning up the docs and releasing 2.2.0