Hi Guys, I'd like to start experimenting around websockets (ASP.NET). I'd like to take advantage of this wonderful technology. However I anticipate problems with ports not beeing available as this is public hosting. So my question is, are you supporting (current spec of) websockets, if not are you planing to do so in the future (when)? Thanks, Stevo
Stevo, like you said this is a shared hosting environment. First off, what calls are you specifically referring to? Outbound or inbound calls? For the most part outbound calls are not blocked, but for security reasons, inbound calls are a little more restrictive.
Hi Ray, after further reading, it seems that WebSockets is actually going to run on port 80. However there might be some other problems, please see this article http://www.infoq.com/articles/Web-Sockets-Proxy-Servers. Maybe I just wanted to hear that you have been thinking in terms of testing WebSockets in your environment...
I don't think this will be problem. First off the article you sent only talks about the possibility of problems websockets will encounter with proxy servers. We ourselves do not have a time out setting for http calls to port 80, you can keep it open as long as you like. Although this may mean you can easily consume all of your http connections.
