[erlang-questions] Recommendations for secure websocket + fallbacks

[Benoit Chesneau]

or vernemq with the websocket using mqtt js. you can even use
ejabberd/mongooseim with the xmpp websocket client if you need messaging :)

Another solution would be using n2o or nitrogen. now you have a lot of
choices ;)

On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 at 17:09, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED> wrote:

> To add to that:
>
> If you need messaging or can design your application this way, then
> RabbitMQ is definitely a great solution.
>
> A few notes however:
>
> The SockJS in the Web STOMP plugin only accepts UTF-8 messages (this is
> also true of Bullet and most solutions that provide fallbacks). If you
> need binary, the Web STOMP plugin has a plain Websocket endpoint but
> that one has no fallback.
>
> The Web MQTT plugin currently does not work against the most recent
> RabbitMQ version, it will work against 3.6.1 onward. Right now you need
> to have an unreleased version of the RabbitMQ MQTT plugin that contains
> the required changes.
>
> The Web MQTT plugin is currently considered experimental. Feedback would
> however be much appreciated.
>
> Disclaimer: I wrote the Web MQTT plugin and am the current maintainer of
> the Web STOMP plugin.
>
> On 01/29/2016 04:57 PM, Santiago Fernández wrote:
> > If you want to take advantage from another Erlang system for your
> > development, take a look to RabbitMQ. There is a Web STOMP plugin (using
> > SockJS or plain WebSockets). I'm not sure what are the pros and cons of
> > STOMP vs plain WebSocket (bandwith, performance, scalability, etc) but
> > it is easy to integrate.
> >
> > You can develop your own Erlang application an deploy it with the broker
> > in the same cluster, to avoid AMQP overhead (direct connection). Or you
> > can develop your own plugin using Erlang and using all RabbitMQ
> > infrastructure.
> >
> > There is also a plugin for MQTT over WebSockets under development.
> >
> > sorry for my english!
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Santiago
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED
> > <mailto:essen@REDACTED>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 01/28/2016 03:08 PM, Fred Hebert wrote:
> >
> >             I would be interested to hear any experiences you might have
> >             in this
> >             domain, and any recommendations you might have for erlang
> >             libraries,
> >             servers, etc. Has anyone done this? What stack did you
> >             deploy? What
> >             were the issues you encountered?
> >
> >
> >         Sadly I'm afraid I can't be of much more help there. I've left a
> >         lot of
> >         my web dev work behind me. Something equivalent in spirit to the
> >         socket.io <http://socket.io> of old, but with the Erlang frame
> >         of mind is 'bullet',
> >         developped to work with cowboy:
> https://github.com/ninenines/bullet
> >
> >         It's what I would consider your best bet, but I'm out of the
> >         game when
> >         it comes to that stuff and don't know what else may exist.
> >
> >
> >     My recommendation today is to go with Websocket directly.
> >
> >     If you take a look at http://caniuse.com/#feat=websockets you can
> >     see that it will just work on close to 90% of the global market
> >     share. Chances are your local market share is higher than that, but
> >     it could also be lower (in particular if you are writing an
> >     enterprise system).
> >
> >     Depending on when you will ship, it might not even make sense to ask
> >     yourself this question anymore. If you ship even in 1 year it
> >     already makes little sense, it's much easier to partially disable
> >     functionality with a message recommending people update or switch
> >     browser.
> >
> >     Note that in those %s, nearly 5% are about Opera Mini. Opera Mini is
> >     a very particular browser that supports very little interactive
> >     features. I would not count it in market share and so the total of
> >     browsers that do support Websocket today is closer to 95%. If you
> >     need to support Opera Mini, I don't think even something like Bullet
> >     or Sockjs or other will work.
> >
> >     As far as which Websocket implementation to use, I would suggest
> >     Cowboy of course, since I wrote it, but I will go as far as to
> >     suggest Cowboy master if you care about Websocket compression,
> >     although master is about to receive more breaking changes from the
> >     work toward 2.0.
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >
> >     --
> >     Loïc Hoguin
> >     http://ninenines.eu
> >     Author of The Erlanger Playbook,
> >     A book about software development using Erlang
> >
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