Wslay - The WebSocket library

Wslay is a WebSocket library written in C. It implements the protocol version 13 described in RFC 6455. This library offers 2 levels of API: event-based API and frame-based low-level API. For event-based API, it is suitable for non-blocking reactor pattern style. You can set callbacks in various events. For frame-based API, you can send WebSocket frame directly. Wslay only supports data transfer part of WebSocket protocol and does not perform opening handshake in HTTP.

Wslay supports:

• Text/Binary messages.
• Automatic ping reply.
• Callback interface.
• External event loop.

Wslay does not perform any I/O operations for its own. Instead, it offers callbacks for them. This makes Wslay independent on any I/O frameworks, SSL, sockets, etc. This makes Wslay protable across various platforms and the application authors can choose freely I/O frameworks.

See Autobahn test reports: server and client.

This project is hosted at https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/wslay

Contents:

• Tutorial
  • WebSocket Echo Server
• API Reference
  • wslay_event_context_server_init, wslay_event_context_client_init, wslay_event_context_free
  • wslay_event_config_set_no_buffering
  • wslay_event_config_set_max_recv_msg_length
  • wslay_event_config_set_callbacks
  • wslay_event_config_set_allowed_rsv_bits
  • wslay_event_queue_close
  • wslay_event_queue_fragmented_msg, wslay_event_queue_fragmented_msg_ex
  • wslay_event_queue_msg, wslay_event_queue_msg_ex
  • wslay_event_recv
  • wslay_event_send
  • wslay_event_set_error
  • wslay_event_want_read
  • wslay_event_want_write
  • wslay_event_get_read_enabled
  • wslay_event_get_write_enabled
  • wslay_event_shutdown_read
  • wslay_event_shutdown_write
  • wslay_event_get_close_received
  • wslay_event_get_close_sent
  • wslay_event_get_status_code_received
  • wslay_event_get_status_code_sent
  • wslay_event_get_queued_msg_count
  • wslay_event_get_queued_msg_length