The WebSockets client app

Let us start with writing client-side code in JavaScript. We will be hitting the same Echo server for now. Let's get started with our client-side code. Here is how the client code will look:

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" > <title>WebSocket Test</title> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> var wsUri = "ws://echo.websocket.org/"; var output; function init(){ output = document.getElementById("output"); testWebSocket(); } function testWebSocket(){ websocket = new WebSocket(wsUri); websocket.onopen = onOpen; websocket.onclose = onClose; websocket.onmessage = onMessage; websocket.onerror = onError; } function onOpen(evt){ writeToScreen("CONNECTED"); doSend("WebSocket rocks"); } function ...

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