gwebsocket 0.9.9

Websocket handler for the gevent pywsgi server, a Python network library

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gwebsocket
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`gwebsocket`_ is a WebSocket library for the gevent_ networking library.

::

from gevent import pywsgi
from gwebsocket.handler import WebSocketHandler

def websocket_app(environ, start_response):
if environ["PATH_INFO"] == '/echo':
ws = environ["wsgi.websocket"]
message = ws.receive()
ws.send(message)

server = pywsgi.WSGIServer(("", 8000), websocket_app,
handler_class=WebSocketHandler)
server.serve_forever()

Installation
------------

The easiest way to install gwebsocket is directly from PyPi_ using pip or
setuptools by running the commands below::

$ pip install gwebsocket


Gunicorn Worker
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Using Gunicorn it is even more easy to start a server. Only the
`websocket_app` from the previous example is required to start the server.
Start Gunicorn using the following command and worker class to enable WebSocket
funtionality for the application.

::

gunicorn -k "gwebsocket.gunicorn.GWebSocketWorker" wsgi:websocket_app

Performance
^^^^^^^^^^^

`gwebsocket`_ is pretty fast, but can be accelerated further by
installing `wsaccel <https://github.com/methane/wsaccel>`_ and `ujson` or `simplejson`::

$ pip install wsaccel ujson

`gwebsocket`_ automatically detects ``wsaccell`` and uses the Cython
implementation for UTF8 validation and later also frame masking and demasking.

Get in touch
^^^^^^^^^^^^

Issues can be created
at `Bitbucket <https://bitbucket.org/btubbs/gwebsocket/issues?status=new&status=open>`_.

Acknowledgements
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

gwebsocket is based on `Jeffrey Gelens`_' `gevent-websocket`_.
gwebsocket omits gevent-websocket's WAMP features and WebSocketApplication mini
framework, in favor of providing just a minimal library for use in other
frameworks. gwebsocket also makes it possible to do cleanup on close without
building your app as a WebSocketApplication.

.. _gwebsocket: http://www.bitbucket.org/btubbs/gwebsocket/
.. _gevent: http://www.gevent.org/
.. _Jeffrey Gelens: http://www.gelens.org/
.. _PyPi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gevent-websocket/
.. _repository: http://www.bitbucket.org/Jeffrey/gevent-websocket/
.. _RFC6455: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6455/?include_text=1