Realtime Server

A socket.io based message server written in Go

Realtime is a message server allowing http web clients to communicate with eachother over a simple interface. It consists of both the server, and the client API, both wrapping around socket.io

The package is also wrapped up to integrate with Supervisor for managing the process.

Currently this version of the server only support socket.io 0.6.x There is apparently a newer fork of go-socket.io compatible to 0.9.0, so maybe someone will update RealTime to that version, once it has determined to be stable.

Detailed client information and examples can be found here: http://connectai.com/realtime

Features

• Simple Javascript client API for connecting and communicating
• "Channels" support for different communication groups/rooms
• "Identity" for a user to group multiple connection (browser windows, etc) into a single identity on the server
• Monitor URL - Can specific a URL endpoint that will receive POST requests notifying when various events occur in the message server
• Public messages via POST requests
• Events - Builtin server events like "onSubscribe/onUnsubscribe" and arbitrary client-side events.

Installation

Binary builds (if available): https://github.com/justinfx/realtime/downloads

From source:

To get the entire application with all support files:

git clone --recursive git://github.com/justinfx/realtime.git
cd realtime
./src/build.sh

RealTime should now be built into the application directory, and can be directly started: ./realtime -port=8001

You can also use the packages Supervisor process manager with the bundled commands:

./start
./status
./stop
./restart

If you want the flash socket server support to work, then RealTime should be started with sudo, as flash needs a privileged port to run: sudo ./realtime

Configuration

Settings can be specified in the etc/ directory.

• realtime.conf - Settings specific to the RealTime server process
• supervisord-realtime.conf - Settings to control how Supervisor will run and manage the RealTime process
• supervisord.conf - The Supervisor-specific conf

License checking

By default, the server will only accept connections from web clients originating on the localhost. License checking is done by comparing the clients request sha1("domain.com"+SECRET). The SECRET is curently stored in the binary (util.go) but should probably be moved to the config to be loaded at runtime.

Example:

To allow clients from "mydomain.com" to connect to the RealTime server, generate a sha1 key and add it to the etc/license.txt

echo -n mydomain.comRk8ohYJQBXopu82XmVTFsAgG3r4f | shasum -a 1 | awk '{print $1}'
571ab3357c3e56e20b764f25e62149229f5d4b08