[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ and Websockets

Thu Nov 4 17:47:27 GMT 2010

On Nov 4, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Marek Majkowski wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 19:55, Christian Legnitto <clegnitto at mozilla.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>> Support for WebSockets
>> 
>> * It'd be nice for there a plugin to support websockets
>> * More important for Mozilla as most tools are web-based
>> * I have set it up with orbitd, but it's a pain / another moving piece / easier to uncomment a line like http://activemq.apache.org/websockets.html
> 
> 
> Christian,
> 
> I'm interested in creating a websockets plugin for Rabbit.
> 
> But I'm not really sure how you'd like to use it.
> 
> As a thing exposed to the wild internet?
> Or just as another framing for AMQP?
> Or as a wire protocol for STOMP?
> (like this thing http://jmesnil.net/stomp-websocket/doc/)
> 
> Or maybe you have yet another use case?
> 
> Cheers,
>  Marek

I was thinking more like http://jmesnil.net/stomp-websocket/doc/, as that's what I have been using. Of course, the more options the merrier :-) I can't really provide erlang help, but I'm sure I can poke the WebSocket guys here at Moz to provide any assistance required on that front.

Thanks,
Christian