上一篇文章简要的介绍了一下http协议,此次再介绍一下WebSocket协议,二者之间有很大的区别,WebSocket协议是 HTML5 开始提供的一种在单个 TCP 链接上进行全双工通信的协议。html
简单的理解一下什么是双工通信协议,以前有讲过http协议只能客户端向服务端发起请求,是单向的应用层协议。而双工通信协议,不只客户端能向服务端发起请求,服务端也能够主动推送信息给客户端。node
WebSocket 协议在2008年诞生,2011年成为国际标准。全部浏览器都已经支持了。ios
相比于http协议,websoket协议给咱们带来了极大的方便,举个例子:git
以前,咱们在作消息通知的时候,须要设置定时器,频繁的向后台发起异步ajax请求实现长轮询,获取最新的数据,这样效率很是低,很是浪费资源,由于不停的发起http请求,不停的与服务端创建链接,或者http连接始终打开。
而如今有了websocket,就解决了轮询的问题,websocket只须要创建一次链接,就能够保持长久链接,相比轮询不停的创建链接,大大的提高了效率,这样只要服务端有数据变化,就能够当即通知前台了。github
首先HTTP有 1.1 和 1.0 之说,也就是所谓的 keep-alive ,把多个HTTP请求合并为一个,可是 Websocket 实际上是一个新协议,跟HTTP协议基本没有关系,只是为了兼容现有浏览器的握手规范而已,也就是说它是HTTP协议上的一种补充,Websocket是借用了HTTP的协议来完成一部分握手。web
websocket有如下特色:ajax
目前websocket对大部分浏览器有很好的兼容,但对于IE10如下的浏览器没法兼容。为了解决兼容性,Socket.IO就出现了。
Socket.IO是一个基于Nodejs的,用于实时通讯的一个软件包(包括client端和server端),Socket.IO彻底由JavaScript实现。
平时在应用的时候,能够直接引入socket.io这个库就能够了。先后台都须要引用该库。express
下面针对nodejs的服务端如何使用举个例子:跨域
服务端代码:浏览器
const http = require('http'); const fs = require('fs'); const express = require('express'); const io = require('socket.io'); const app = express(); const httpServer = http.createServer(app); app.use('/', express.static(__dirname + '/www')); httpServer.listen(8081); const ioserve = io.listen(httpServer); let users = []; ioserve.on('connection', (socket) => { socket.on('login', (nickname) => { if (users.indexOf(nickname) > -1) { socket.emit('nickExisted'); } else { socket.userIndex = users.length; socket.nickname = nickname; users.push(nickname); socket.emit('loginSuccess'); ioserve.sockets.emit('system', nickname, users.length, 'login'); } }); socket.on('postMsg', function (msg) { socket.broadcast.emit('newMsg', socket.nickname, msg); }); socket.on('img', function (imgData) { socket.broadcast.emit('newImg', socket.nickname, imgData); }) socket.on('disconnect', function () { users.splice(socket.userIndex, 1); socket.broadcast.emit('system', socket.nickname, users.length, 'logout'); }); })
前台代码
html文件
<body> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="banner"> <h1>HiChat :)</h1> <span id="status"></span> </div> <div id="historyMsg"> </div> <div class="controls"> <div class="items"> <input id="colorStyle" type="color" placeHolder='#000' title="font color" /> <input id="emoji" type="button" value="emoji" title="emoji" /> <label for="sendImage" class="imageLable"> <input type="button" value="image" /> <input id="sendImage" type="file" value="image" /> </label> <input id="clearBtn" type="button" value="clear" title="clear screen" /> </div> <textarea id="messageInput" placeHolder="enter to send"></textarea> <input id="sendBtn" type="button" value="SEND"> <div id="emojiWrapper"> </div> </div> </div> <div id="loginWrapper"> <p id="info">connecting to server...</p> <div id="nickWrapper"> <input type="text" placeHolder="nickname" id="nicknameInput" /> <input type="button" value="OK" id="loginBtn" /> </div> </div> <script src="/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script> <script src="js/hichat.js"></script> </body>
js文件
; (function () { function Hichart() { this.socket = null; } Hichart.prototype = { init: function () { var that = this; this.socket = io.connect(); this.socket.on('connect', function () { document.getElementById('info').textContent = 'get yourself a nickname :)'; document.getElementById('nickWrapper').style.display = 'block'; document.getElementById('nicknameInput').focus(); that.login(); that.postMsg(); that.uploadImg(); }); this.socket.on('nickExisted', function () { document.getElementById('info').textContent = '!nickname is taken, choose another pls'; }); this.socket.on('loginSuccess', function () { document.title = 'hichat | ' + document.getElementById('nicknameInput').value; document.getElementById('loginWrapper').style.display = 'none';//隐藏遮罩层显聊天界面 document.getElementById('messageInput').focus();//让消息输入框得到焦点 }); this.socket.on('system', function (nickname, userCount, type) { var msg = nickname + (type === 'login' ? ' joined' : ' left'); that.displayNewMsg('system ', msg, 'red'); document.getElementById('status').textContent = userCount + (userCount > 1 ? ' users' : ' user') + ' online'; }); this.socket.on('newMsg', function (nickname, msg) { that.displayNewMsg(nickname, msg); }); this.socket.on('newImg', function (nickname, newImg) { that.displayImage(nickname, newImg); }); }, login: function () { var that = this; document.getElementById('loginBtn').addEventListener('click', function () { var nickname = document.getElementById('nicknameInput').value; if (nickname.trim().length) { that.socket.emit('login', nickname); } else { document.getElementById('nicknameInput').focus(); } }, false) }, displayNewMsg: function (user, msg, color) { var container = document.getElementById('historyMsg'); var msgToDisplay = document.createElement('p'); var data = new Date().toTimeString().substr(0, 8); msgToDisplay.style.color = color || '#000'; msgToDisplay.innerHTML = user + '<span class="timespan">(' + data + '): </span>' + msg; container.appendChild(msgToDisplay); container.scrollTop = container.scrollHeight; }, displayImage: function (user, imgData, color) { var container = document.getElementById('historyMsg'), msgToDisplay = document.createElement('p'), date = new Date().toTimeString().substr(0, 8); msgToDisplay.style.color = color || '#000'; msgToDisplay.innerHTML = user + '<span class="timespan">(' + date + '): </span> <br/>' + '<a href="' + imgData + '" target="_blank"><img src="' + imgData + '"/></a>'; container.appendChild(msgToDisplay); container.scrollTop = container.scrollHeight; }, postMsg: function () { var that = this; var sendBtn = document.getElementById('sendBtn'); var messageInput = document.getElementById('messageInput'); sendBtn.addEventListener('click', function () { var msg = messageInput.value; if (msg.trim().length != 0) { messageInput.value = ''; messageInput.focus(); that.socket.emit('postMsg', msg); that.displayNewMsg('me', msg); } }); }, uploadImg: function () { var that = this; document.getElementById('sendImage').addEventListener('change', function () { if (this.files.length) { var file = this.files[0]; var reader = new FileReader(); if (!reader) { that.displayNewMsg('system', '!your browser doesn\'t support fileReader', 'red'); this.value = ''; return; } reader.onload = function (e) { this.value = ''; that.socket.emit('img', e.target.result); that.displayImage('me', e.target.result); } reader.readAsDataURL(file); } }) } } window.onload = function () { var hichart = new Hichart(); hichart.init(); } })()
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