On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Andrew Otto <o...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> So, since most of the dev work for a socket.io implementation is already > done, you can see what the protocol would look like here: > https://github.com/wikimedia/kasocki#socketio-client-set-up > > Kasocki is just a library, the actual WMF deployment and documentation > would be more specific about MediaWiki type events, but the interface would > be the same. (Likely there would be client libraries to abstract the > actual socket.io interaction.) > See, that's the sort of thing I was complaining about. If I'm not using whatever language happens to have a library already written, there's no spec so I have to reverse-engineer it from an implementation. And in this case that seems like socket.io on top of engine.io on top of who knows what else. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
