websocket-utils

README

Websocket utils

Simple CLI utils for testing websocket (RFC4655) connections. Currently are:

• wsclient — allows you to establish websocket connection with server and send text messages from command line.
• wsechoserver — just reply back messages it received.

Install

Binary downloads

Prebuilt binaries provided for Linux x86_64:

• https://drone.io/github.com/grafov/websocket-utils/files/wsechoserver
• https://drone.io/github.com/grafov/websocket-utils/files/wsclient

Download and place to $PATH.

Build from source

You need go environment then install external packages:

• go get github.com/gorilla/websocket
• go get github.com/kdar/factorlog
• go get github.com/peterh/liner

Then install and updat package with:

go get github.com/grafov/websocket-utils

For go 1.3 just use build -i for autoinstall external packages during build.

Makefile supplied to use make instead direct usage of go compiler.

make deps
make build

Documentation

Overview

Simple websocket client with CLI shell. It can send text messages to ws server.

Simple websocket server echoed requests back to client.