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SS Example "ws-echo"

This shows a client doing ws echo, using Secure Streams.

SS' approach is to segregate "policy" (where and how to connect and authenticate for particular kinds of connection) from payloads that are transferred on the connection. In this case, all the information about the example's policy is in example-policy.json.

Source Purpose
main.c boilerplate to create the lws_context and event loop
ws-echo-ss.c the secure stream user code
example-policy.json the example policy

Build

You should build and install lws itself first. Then with this directory as the cwd, you can use cmake . && make to build the example. This produces ./lws-minimal-ss-ws-echo.

If lws was configured to support SS Proxying with -DLWS_WITH_SECURE_STREAMS_PROXY_API=1, then a second executable is also produced ./lws-minimal-ss-ws-echo-client. This does not try to do its own networking, but instead wants to connect to an SS Proxy process that will fulfil connections itself using its own policy.

Running

You should be able to run the example directly and see it start to send ws messages every 500ms, and receive them back from the lws mirror server.

To go via the SS Proxy, run ./lws-minimal-ss-ws-echo-client and an SS Proxy, eg, the example one found in ./minimal-examples/ssproxy/ssproxy-socket.

Options

Commandline option Meaning
-d <bitmap> Enable logging levels (default 1031 (USER, ERR, WARN, NOTICE), 1039 = +INFO, 1151 = +INFO, DEBUG), -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG needed for logs more verbose that NOTICE
--ssproxy-port <port> If going via an SS Proxy, default is Unix Domain Socket @proxy.ss.lws, you can force a different proxy's TCP port with this
--ssproxy-ads <ads> Set non-default hostname or IP address proxy is on
--ssproxy-iface <iface> Set non-default UDS path if starts with +, else interface to bind TCP connection to for proxy