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| # websocket-driver [](https://travis-ci.org/faye/websocket-driver-node)
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| 
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| This module provides a complete implementation of the WebSocket protocols that
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| can be hooked up to any I/O stream. It aims to simplify things by decoupling the
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| protocol details from the I/O layer, such that users only need to implement code
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| to stream data in and out of it without needing to know anything about how the
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| protocol actually works. Think of it as a complete WebSocket system with
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| pluggable I/O.
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| 
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| Due to this design, you get a lot of things for free. In particular, if you hook
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| this module up to some I/O object, it will do all of this for you:
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| 
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| - Select the correct server-side driver to talk to the client
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| - Generate and send both server- and client-side handshakes
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| - Recognize when the handshake phase completes and the WS protocol begins
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| - Negotiate subprotocol selection based on `Sec-WebSocket-Protocol`
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| - Negotiate and use extensions via the
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|   [websocket-extensions](https://github.com/faye/websocket-extensions-node)
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|   module
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| - Buffer sent messages until the handshake process is finished
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| - Deal with proxies that defer delivery of the draft-76 handshake body
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| - Notify you when the socket is open and closed and when messages arrive
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| - Recombine fragmented messages
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| - Dispatch text, binary, ping, pong and close frames
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| - Manage the socket-closing handshake process
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| - Automatically reply to ping frames with a matching pong
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| - Apply masking to messages sent by the client
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| 
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| This library was originally extracted from the [Faye](http://faye.jcoglan.com)
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| project but now aims to provide simple WebSocket support for any Node-based
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| project.
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| 
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| 
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| ## Installation
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| 
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| ```
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| $ npm install websocket-driver
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| ```
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| 
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| 
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| ## Usage
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| 
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| This module provides protocol drivers that have the same interface on the server
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| and on the client. A WebSocket driver is an object with two duplex streams
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| attached; one for incoming/outgoing messages and one for managing the wire
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| protocol over an I/O stream. The full API is described below.
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| 
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| 
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| ### Server-side with HTTP
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| 
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| A Node webserver emits a special event for 'upgrade' requests, and this is where
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| you should handle WebSockets. You first check whether the request is a
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| WebSocket, and if so you can create a driver and attach the request's I/O stream
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| to it.
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| 
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| ```js
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| var http = require('http'),
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|     websocket = require('websocket-driver');
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| 
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| var server = http.createServer();
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| 
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| server.on('upgrade', function(request, socket, body) {
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|   if (!websocket.isWebSocket(request)) return;
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| 
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|   var driver = websocket.http(request);
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| 
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|   driver.io.write(body);
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|   socket.pipe(driver.io).pipe(socket);
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| 
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|   driver.messages.on('data', function(message) {
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|     console.log('Got a message', message);
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|   });
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| 
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|   driver.start();
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| });
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| ```
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| 
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| Note the line `driver.io.write(body)` - you must pass the `body` buffer to the
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| socket driver in order to make certain versions of the protocol work.
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| 
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| 
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| ### Server-side with TCP
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| 
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| You can also handle WebSocket connections in a bare TCP server, if you're not
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| using an HTTP server and don't want to implement HTTP parsing yourself.
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| 
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| The driver will emit a `connect` event when a request is received, and at this
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| point you can detect whether it's a WebSocket and handle it as such. Here's an
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| example using the Node `net` module:
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| 
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| ```js
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| var net = require('net'),
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|     websocket = require('websocket-driver');
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| 
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| var server = net.createServer(function(connection) {
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|   var driver = websocket.server();
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| 
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|   driver.on('connect', function() {
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|     if (websocket.isWebSocket(driver)) {
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|       driver.start();
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|     } else {
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|       // handle other HTTP requests
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|     }
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|   });
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| 
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|   driver.on('close', function() { connection.end() });
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|   connection.on('error', function() {});
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| 
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|   connection.pipe(driver.io).pipe(connection);
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| 
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|   driver.messages.pipe(driver.messages);
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| });
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| 
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| server.listen(4180);
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| ```
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| 
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| In the `connect` event, the driver gains several properties to describe the
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| request, similar to a Node request object, such as `method`, `url` and
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| `headers`. However you should remember it's not a real request object; you
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| cannot write data to it, it only tells you what request data we parsed from the
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| input.
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| 
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| If the request has a body, it will be in the `driver.body` buffer, but only as
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| much of the body as has been piped into the driver when the `connect` event
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| fires.
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| 
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| 
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| ### Client-side
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| 
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| Similarly, to implement a WebSocket client you just need to make a driver by
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| passing in a URL. After this you use the driver API as described below to
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| process incoming data and send outgoing data.
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| 
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| 
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| ```js
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| var net = require('net'),
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|     websocket = require('websocket-driver');
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| 
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| var driver = websocket.client('ws://www.example.com/socket'),
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|     tcp = net.connect(80, 'www.example.com');
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| 
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| tcp.pipe(driver.io).pipe(tcp);
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| 
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| tcp.on('connect', function() {
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|   driver.start();
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| });
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| 
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| driver.messages.on('data', function(message) {
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|   console.log('Got a message', message);
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| });
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| ```
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| 
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| Client drivers have two additional properties for reading the HTTP data that was
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| sent back by the server:
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| 
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| - `driver.statusCode` - the integer value of the HTTP status code
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| - `driver.headers` - an object containing the response headers
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| 
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| 
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| ### HTTP Proxies
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| 
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| The client driver supports connections via HTTP proxies using the `CONNECT`
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| method. Instead of sending the WebSocket handshake immediately, it will send a
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| `CONNECT` request, wait for a `200` response, and then proceed as normal.
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| 
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| To use this feature, call `driver.proxy(url)` where `url` is the origin of the
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| proxy, including a username and password if required. This produces a duplex
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| stream that you should pipe in and out of your TCP connection to the proxy
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| server. When the proxy emits `connect`, you can then pipe `driver.io` to your
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| TCP stream and call `driver.start()`.
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| 
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| ```js
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| var net = require('net'),
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|     websocket = require('websocket-driver');
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| 
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| var driver = websocket.client('ws://www.example.com/socket'),
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|     proxy  = driver.proxy('http://username:password@proxy.example.com'),
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|     tcp    = net.connect(80, 'proxy.example.com');
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| 
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| tcp.pipe(proxy).pipe(tcp, { end: false });
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| 
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| tcp.on('connect', function() {
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|   proxy.start();
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| });
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| 
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| proxy.on('connect', function() {
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|   driver.io.pipe(tcp).pipe(driver.io);
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|   driver.start();
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| });
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| 
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| driver.messages.on('data', function(message) {
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|   console.log('Got a message', message);
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| });
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| ```
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| 
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| The proxy's `connect` event is also where you should perform a TLS handshake on
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| your TCP stream, if you are connecting to a `wss:` endpoint.
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| 
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| In the event that proxy connection fails, `proxy` will emit an `error`. You can
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| inspect the proxy's response via `proxy.statusCode` and `proxy.headers`.
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| 
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| ```js
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| proxy.on('error', function(error) {
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|   console.error(error.message);
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|   console.log(proxy.statusCode);
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|   console.log(proxy.headers);
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| });
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| ```
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| 
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| Before calling `proxy.start()` you can set custom headers using
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| `proxy.setHeader()`:
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| 
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| ```js
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| proxy.setHeader('User-Agent', 'node');
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| proxy.start();
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| ```
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| 
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| 
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| ### Driver API
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| 
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| Drivers are created using one of the following methods:
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| 
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| ```js
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| driver = websocket.http(request, options)
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| driver = websocket.server(options)
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| driver = websocket.client(url, options)
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| ```
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| 
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| The `http` method returns a driver chosen using the headers from a Node HTTP
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| request object. The `server` method returns a driver that will parse an HTTP
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| request and then decide which driver to use for it using the `http` method. The
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| `client` method always returns a driver for the RFC version of the protocol with
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| masking enabled on outgoing frames.
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| 
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| The `options` argument is optional, and is an object. It may contain the
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| following fields:
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| 
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| - `maxLength` - the maximum allowed size of incoming message frames, in bytes.
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|   The default value is `2^26 - 1`, or 1 byte short of 64 MiB.
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| - `protocols` - an array of strings representing acceptable subprotocols for use
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|   over the socket. The driver will negotiate one of these to use via the
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|   `Sec-WebSocket-Protocol` header if supported by the other peer.
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| 
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| A driver has two duplex streams attached to it:
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| 
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| - **`driver.io`** - this stream should be attached to an I/O socket like a TCP
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|   stream. Pipe incoming TCP chunks to this stream for them to be parsed, and
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|   pipe this stream back into TCP to send outgoing frames.
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| - **`driver.messages`** - this stream emits messages received over the
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|   WebSocket.  Writing to it sends messages to the other peer by emitting frames
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|   via the `driver.io` stream.
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| 
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| All drivers respond to the following API methods, but some of them are no-ops
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| depending on whether the client supports the behaviour.
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| 
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| Note that most of these methods are commands: if they produce data that should
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| be sent over the socket, they will give this to you by emitting `data` events on
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| the `driver.io` stream.
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| 
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| #### `driver.on('open', function(event) {})`
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| 
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| Adds a callback to execute when the socket becomes open.
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| 
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| #### `driver.on('message', function(event) {})`
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| 
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| Adds a callback to execute when a message is received. `event` will have a
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| `data` attribute containing either a string in the case of a text message or a
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| `Buffer` in the case of a binary message.
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| 
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| You can also listen for messages using the `driver.messages.on('data')` event,
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| which emits strings for text messages and buffers for binary messages.
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| 
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| #### `driver.on('error', function(event) {})`
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| 
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| Adds a callback to execute when a protocol error occurs due to the other peer
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| sending an invalid byte sequence. `event` will have a `message` attribute
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| describing the error.
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| 
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| #### `driver.on('close', function(event) {})`
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| 
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| Adds a callback to execute when the socket becomes closed. The `event` object
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| has `code` and `reason` attributes.
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| 
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| #### `driver.on('ping', function(event) {})`
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| 
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| Adds a callback block to execute when a ping is received. You do not need to
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| handle this by sending a pong frame yourself; the driver handles this for you.
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| 
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| #### `driver.on('pong', function(event) {})`
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| 
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| Adds a callback block to execute when a pong is received. If this was in
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| response to a ping you sent, you can also handle this event via the
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| `driver.ping(message, function() { ... })` callback.
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| 
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| #### `driver.addExtension(extension)`
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| 
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| Registers a protocol extension whose operation will be negotiated via the
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| `Sec-WebSocket-Extensions` header. `extension` is any extension compatible with
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| the [websocket-extensions](https://github.com/faye/websocket-extensions-node)
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| framework.
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| 
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| #### `driver.setHeader(name, value)`
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| 
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| Sets a custom header to be sent as part of the handshake response, either from
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| the server or from the client. Must be called before `start()`, since this is
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| when the headers are serialized and sent.
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| 
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| #### `driver.start()`
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| 
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| Initiates the protocol by sending the handshake - either the response for a
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| server-side driver or the request for a client-side one. This should be the
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| first method you invoke.  Returns `true` if and only if a handshake was sent.
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| 
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| #### `driver.parse(string)`
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| 
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| Takes a string and parses it, potentially resulting in message events being
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| emitted (see `on('message')` above) or in data being sent to `driver.io`.  You
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| should send all data you receive via I/O to this method by piping a stream into
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| `driver.io`.
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| 
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| #### `driver.text(string)`
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| 
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| Sends a text message over the socket. If the socket handshake is not yet
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| complete, the message will be queued until it is. Returns `true` if the message
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| was sent or queued, and `false` if the socket can no longer send messages.
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| 
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| This method is equivalent to `driver.messages.write(string)`.
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| 
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| #### `driver.binary(buffer)`
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| 
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| Takes a `Buffer` and sends it as a binary message. Will queue and return `true`
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| or `false` the same way as the `text` method. It will also return `false` if the
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| driver does not support binary messages.
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| 
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| This method is equivalent to `driver.messages.write(buffer)`.
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| 
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| #### `driver.ping(string = '', function() {})`
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| 
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| Sends a ping frame over the socket, queueing it if necessary. `string` and the
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| callback are both optional. If a callback is given, it will be invoked when the
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| socket receives a pong frame whose content matches `string`. Returns `false` if
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| frames can no longer be sent, or if the driver does not support ping/pong.
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| 
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| #### `driver.pong(string = '')`
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| 
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| Sends a pong frame over the socket, queueing it if necessary. `string` is
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| optional. Returns `false` if frames can no longer be sent, or if the driver does
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| not support ping/pong.
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| 
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| You don't need to call this when a ping frame is received; pings are replied to
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| automatically by the driver. This method is for sending unsolicited pongs.
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| 
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| #### `driver.close()`
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| 
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| Initiates the closing handshake if the socket is still open. For drivers with no
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| closing handshake, this will result in the immediate execution of the
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| `on('close')` driver. For drivers with a closing handshake, this sends a closing
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| frame and `emit('close')` will execute when a response is received or a protocol
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| error occurs.
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| 
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| #### `driver.version`
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| 
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| Returns the WebSocket version in use as a string. Will either be `hixie-75`,
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| `hixie-76` or `hybi-$version`.
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| 
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| #### `driver.protocol`
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| 
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| Returns a string containing the selected subprotocol, if any was agreed upon
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| using the `Sec-WebSocket-Protocol` mechanism. This value becomes available after
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| `emit('open')` has fired.
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