ROCON Web Proxy Server

This is a server-side component that works with rosbridge_suite to provide access from ROS Web clients to ROS systems that lie behind a firewall.

It is a stand-alone service, it doens't have any ROS dependencies. It is set-up to run directly on Heroku or manually on any other system that supports python 2.7 and pip

Quick start

Running on a server or development computer:

git clone git@github.com:creativa77/rocon_web_proxy_server.git
cd rocon_web_proxy_server
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py

Pre-requisites:

• git
• python 2.7
• pip

Running on Heroku

• Sign-up or log-in to Heroku.com
• Install the Heroku toolbelt

Deploy to Heroku:

git clone git@github.com:creativa77/rocon_web_proxy_server.git
cd rocon_web_proxy_server
heroku create
git push heroku master

Connecting the rest of the pieces

After the Proxy Server is running, you can connect your ROS system and clients to it.

On the ROS side, add the rosbridge_websocket_client node, setting the url param to the WebSocket location of the proxy server.

On your Web clients, configure roslibjs url to point to the same WebSocket URL.

NOTE: By default, the Web Proxy Server will start on port 9090 when run manualy and in the default port 80 when running on Heroku