[undertow-dev] WebSocket Proxying

Tobias Verbeke tobias.verbeke at openanalytics.eu
Fri Apr 22 17:09:51 EDT 2016


Hi Stuart,

Many thanks for your reply and for pointing me in the right direction. This is wonderful news!

Best,
Tobias

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stuart Douglas" <sdouglas at redhat.com>
> To: "Tobias Verbeke" <tobias.verbeke at openanalytics.eu>
> Cc: "Undertow Developers" <undertow-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 12:55:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [undertow-dev] WebSocket Proxying

> Undertow can indeed handle this. Basically after the upgrade the
> reverse proxy just forwards data to the selected backend server, and
> forwards data back to the client (the proxy does not parse the
> websocket protocol, as it does not need to).
> 
> The easiest way to see this in action is probably by combining our
> reverse proxy and websocket examples. If you run the testsuite with
> -Pproxy it will run all the tests (including websocket tests) through
> a reverse proxy.
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 6:40 AM, Tobias Verbeke
> <tobias.verbeke at openanalytics.eu> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I discovered undertow earlier today and its intro page mentions 'Web Sockets'
>> and 'Reverse Proxy' as features.
>>
>> According to Google and SO there is currently no Java technology that can do Web
>> Socket proxying.
>>
>> One such post is the following:
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22262468/jetty-websocket-proxying
>>
>> Do you think undertow would be up to the task? Has anyone relevant experience?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for any pointer.
>>
>> Best,
>> Tobias
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