This server is a simplisitic (and small) piece of code intended for very small "embedded" deploys where a django front-end is running on an appliance-style server and we would like to get websockets updates from server processes.

Installation is done via pip:

$ virtualenv -p python2.7 ssws-testing
$ source ssws-testing/bin/activate
$ git clone https://github.com/mcfletch/ssws.git
$ cd ssws
$ python setup.py develop

You can play with the example by starting a web server in the ssws/ssws/static/js directory:

$ cd ssws/ssws/static/js
$ python -m "SimpleHttpServer" &

Open a web-browser and point it at http://localhost:8000/example.html You will see a notice that the connection was refused. Let's start the server and let the browser connect...

$ ssws-server &

Will start the server, your message in the browser should now say that the session is unknown. The server has to explicitly allow the session key to access the service, and further it has to allow reading (and writing) explicitly for each channel.

$ ssws-session --readable --channel default example-session
$ ssws-message --message "Hello World" default

• per-connection interest management (connection passes in the set of channels it is interested in)
• can update those live
• don't write channel messages into session structures, store channel messages in the channels for X period, new subscriptions to a channel either get everything, or everything since message Y