⛔️ DEPRECATED - simple-libwebsockets-example

I looked at libwebsockets for a week whilst in-between jobs in 2015, since then I haven't used the API. I'm pretty sure I wasn't using it correctly to start with as they've since updated the API in a way that's incompatible with how I was using it, the lws_service timeout is now ignored and my code relied on the timeout occurring to run a polling loop.

The simple-libwebsockets-example name must be good as apparently it's a top hit when searching. If anyone finds better simple libwebsockets examples let me know and I can link to them here. Alternatively if anyone else attempts to fix this repo in a way I can easily validate I'll happily merge the changes.

The original documentation for this project follows.

A simple libwebsockets example.

Like http://ahoj.io/libwebsockets-simple-websocket-server I found the libwebsockets examples here https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/blob/master/test-server too complicated.

I wanted to be able to serve a simple html file and also have a C client send some data to the server so created this.

Build

make

Run

In one terminal run:

./server

In another terminal run:

./client

Then navigate to localhost:8000 in your web browser. You should see a random number being updated every second.