Emscripten network socket

[HezkoreParticipant]

I’ve been trying to get the ‘echoserver.monkey2’ client part to work in Emscripten but I’m only getting weird errors.
I know Fibers aren’t support in Emscripten (right?) but I’m not sure if things like ‘Socket.Connect( HOST,PORT )’ is.

Can I make a client for an online game in Emscripten right now using the built-in network sockets?

[VoidwalkerParticipant]

Have you had success already?

[Mark SiblyKeymaster]

It look like emscripten emulates sockets with websockets, so yes/no. You’ll need a server that can handle websockets and I have no idea how you’d go about setting that up or how to interface with it. Also, the native socket code would need to be extensively rewritten – this thread is enough to scare me off for now:

https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/issues/3611

Its the kind of thing I think we’d need some real expert help with.

If yer bored, give the new desktop sockets in develop branch a try. I came up with quite a few tweaks and fixes today and I think it’s mostly working now.

[VoidwalkerParticipant]

I think that could be helpful maybe?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSockets_API/Writing_WebSocket_servers

So basically when I write a server application (no matter which language) which handles websockets it _should_ work with an monkey-emscripten client?

[HezkoreParticipant]

Well I really don’t care about making a server using Websockets, but connecting as a client via websockets (or something similar?) would be great

I managed to get websockets (client) working in BlitzMax back in 2016: https://bitbucket.org/Hezkore/blitzmax-websocket

[VoidwalkerParticipant]

As far as I understood this should already work as emscripten “wraps” the sockets stuff coming from monkey into websockets?

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