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WebSocket client support

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gmosx commented

Are there any plans to support WebSocket within Surf?

aldanor commented

Why not just use async-tungstenite?

Fishrock123 commented

Someone in discord was talking about this recently rtyler I think. I don't know their github handle.

It may just be that no one has needed it enough to spend the time, not sure.

yoshuawuyts commented

I think the right ordering to adding websocket support to Surf is:

  • build bindings to the window.WebSocket interface for localghost
  • integrate those bindings into surf for the WASM target
  • integrate async-tungstenite (or similar) into surf using the same interface

The reason for this ordering is that we've observed for SSE that the browser's API exposes a subset of what the protocol is capable of delivering. So in order for Surf to continue to work on all platforms we should target the lowest common denominator.

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joshtriplett commented

One reason to support this natively: it could integrate with connection reuse, to allow sending a request, getting back a response, and then opening a websocket, all on the same connection.