Hi Toby Coincidentally I'm looking into this at the moment. I've decided to go down a node.js route and using the socket.io, express framework and mqtt.js. I'm currently reading up on the documentation (and resurrecting my javascript knowledge!). Hopefully this will all be lightweight enough to run on a raspberry pi.
Dan Sent from my ASUS Eee Pad Toby Jaffey <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, > >I'm interested to find out what MQTT to HTTP bridges/proxies exist and how they >work. > >Clearly, there's sometimes a need a need to provide access via web browsers to >MQTT brokers. But, MQTT and HTTP are fundamentally different in their outlook. >HTTP is a request response 1:1 while MQTT is asynchronous, event based pub sub. > >Beyond browsers, providing MQTT broker access over HTTP allows for integration >with existing services like Cosm's triggers, or ifttt. > >The two bridges I have found handle the problem quite differently: >Mosquitto's websocket bridge proxies raw MQTT over websockets - forcing the >client to implement MQTT. > >NJH's bridge (https://github.com/njh/mqtt-http-bridge) uses retained messages >to map to HTTP's GET/PUT CRUD semantics. But, doesn't provide any mechanism for >streaming messages. > >Are there other implementations? >Does anything like the "stateful bridge" described below exist? > >https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rODn8QzgbncB-EJg94Y-FWlsSgII0DxXOoBBZuc8Fvw/edit# > >Thanks. > >-- > > >_______________________________________________ >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mqtt-users >Post to : [email protected] >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mqtt-users >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mqtt-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mqtt-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
