var WebSocketServer = require('websocket').server
new WebSocketServer([serverConfig]);mount will attach the WebSocketServer instance to a Node http.Server instance. serverConfig is required, and is an object with configuration values. For those values, see Server Config Options below. If you passed serverConfig to the constructor, this function will automatically be invoked.
unmount will detach the WebSocketServer instance from the Node http.Server instance. All existing connections are left alone and will not be affected, but no new WebSocket connections will be accepted.
Will gracefully close all open WebSocket connections.
Gracefully closes all open WebSocket connections and unmounts the server from the Node http.Server instance.
httpServer - (http.Server instance) Required.
The Node http or https server instance(s) to attach to. You can pass a single instance directly, or pass an array of instances to attach to multiple http/https servers. Passing an array is particularly useful when you want to accept encrypted and unencrypted WebSocket connections on both ws:// and wss:// protocols using the same WebSocketServer instance.
maxReceivedFrameSize - uint - Default: 64KiB
The maximum allowed received frame size in bytes. Single frame messages will also be limited to this maximum.
maxReceivedMessageSize - uint - Default: 1MiB
The maximum allowed aggregate message size (for fragmented messages) in bytes.
fragmentOutgoingMessages - Boolean - Default: true
Whether or not to fragment outgoing messages. If true, messages will be automatically fragmented into chunks of up to fragmentationThreshold bytes.
fragmentationThreshold - uint - Default: 16KiB
The maximum size of a frame in bytes before it is automatically fragmented.
keepalive - boolean - Default: true
If true, the server will automatically send a ping to all clients every keepaliveInterval milliseconds. Each client has an independent keepalive timer, which is reset when any data is received from that client.
keepaliveInterval - uint - Default: 20000
The interval in milliseconds to send keepalive pings to connected clients.
dropConnectionOnKeepaliveTimeout - boolean - Default: true
If true, the server will consider any connection that has not received any data within the amount of time specified by keepaliveGracePeriod after a keepalive ping has been sent. Ignored if keepalive is false.
keepaliveGracePeriod - uint - Default: 10000
The amount of time to wait after sending a keepalive ping before closing the connection if the connected peer does not respond. Ignored if keepalive or dropConnectionOnKeepaliveTimeout are false. The grace period timer is reset when any data is received from the client.
assembleFragments - boolean - Default: true
If true, fragmented messages will be automatically assembled and the full message will be emitted via a message event. If false, each frame will be emitted on the WebSocketConnection object via a frame event and the application will be responsible for aggregating multiple fragmented frames. Single-frame messages will emit a message event in addition to the frame event. Most users will want to leave this set to true.
autoAcceptConnections - boolean - Default: false
If this is true, websocket connections will be accepted regardless of the path and protocol specified by the client. The protocol accepted will be the first that was requested by the client. Clients from any origin will be accepted. This should only be used in the simplest of cases. You should probably leave this set to false; and inspect the request object to make sure it's acceptable before accepting it.
closeTimeout - uint - Default: 5000
The number of milliseconds to wait after sending a close frame for an acknowledgement to come back before giving up and just closing the socket.
disableNagleAlgorithm - boolean - Default: true
The Nagle Algorithm makes more efficient use of network resources by introducing a small delay before sending small packets so that multiple messages can be batched together before going onto the wire. This however comes at the cost of latency, so the default is to disable it. If you don't need low latency and are streaming lots of small messages, you can change this to 'false';
ignoreXForwardedFor - Boolean - Default: false
Whether or not the X-Forwarded-For header should be respected.
It's important to set this to 'true' when accepting connections
from untrusted clients, as a malicious client could spoof its
IP address by simply setting this header. It's meant to be added
by a trusted proxy or other intermediary within your own
infrastructure.
More info: X-Forwarded-For on Wikipedia
parseExtensions - Boolean - Default: true Whether or not to parse 'sec-websocket-extension' headers. Array is exposed to WebSocketRequest.requestedExtensions.
parseCookies - Boolean - Default: true Whether or not to parse 'cookie' headers. Array is exposed to WebSocketRequest.cookies.
There are three events emitted by a WebSocketServer instance that allow you to handle incoming requests, establish connections, and detect when a connection has been closed.
function(webSocketRequest)
If autoAcceptConnections is set to false, a request event will be emitted by the server whenever a new WebSocket request is made. You should inspect the requested protocols and the user's origin to verify the connection, and then accept or reject it by calling webSocketRequest.accept('chosen-protocol', 'accepted-origin') or webSocketRequest.reject()
function(webSocketConnection)
Emitted whenever a new WebSocket connection is accepted.
function(webSocketConnection, closeReason, description)
Whenever a connection is closed for any reason, the WebSocketServer instance will emit a close event, passing a reference to the WebSocketConnection instance that was closed. closeReason is the numeric reason status code for the connection closure, and description is a textual description of the close reason, if available.
function(error)
Emitted whenever a WebSocket error happens during the connection upgrade phase. Note that the WS connection is automatically rejected with a 400 error code, this event just exposes the error.