I am following the emerging WebSocket standard with a lot of interest. Today, I would like to update my recommendation of tools presented in the article “The best and simplest tools to create a basic WebSocket application with Flash fallback and Python on the server side”. ws4py (WebSocket for Python) by Sylvain Hellegouarch is worth spreading the word. I could not remember the command to “jump” to the bottom of a page in LaTeX. Currently, I am playing around with WebSockets. This is due to an application idea I have in my mind which requires a bidirectional connection between browser and server with low latency. The communication will happen in a stream-like fashion at low bandwidth. Real network sockets using TCP/UDP are often the desired optimum for things like that, but within a browser they can only be provided by Java or Flash plugins. The future belongs to WebSockets. Implemented directly in the browser they are providing a much lower level network connection between the browser and the server than HTTP — without any plugin. WebSockets still work on a layer above TCP, but low latency and efficient data transport in both directions is warranted in a TCP-like fashion. Therefore, real-time application developers are very keen to use WebSockets. As this still is a young development, there is only few browser support and a lot of non-mature client/server libraries. Most importantly, there is a huge lack of documentation how to use these. In this blog post, I present a very simple “echo application” where the user sends a message from his browser to the server — which in turn sends this message back to the client. Simple so far, but the main focus while realizing this is on selecting the right tools for the task, as there is already a lot of stuff out there — some very good, undocumented and hidden things, some totally overloaded things, and some bad things. I tried to fulfill the following conditions:
Because of this POV-Ray issue, I wanted to figure out what is the most secure and stable way to read a file line by line in C++ using a It took me much too long to find a proper solution while searching for “pymol remove hydrogens” and “pymol remove water“. It’s pretty easy… Currently, I am looking into gevent — a nicely performing networking library for Python, based on the brilliant idea of greenlets. I try to use this for WebSocket communication with browsers. As of today, WebSockets are still not available or disabled in some browsers. That’s why there are Javascript implementations like web-socket-js providing a transparent “Flashbridge” as a fallback for the WebSocket communication. But the Flash plugin in the client’s browser does not simply communicate with any server on any port in the world. As a first step, it always tries to receive a so-called socket policy file from the same server the SWF file was received from; on port 843. This policy file tells the client from whom he is allowed to receive data. Today, I present a simple server based on gevent providing this policy file for connecting Flash clients. If you build (xm)grace without the presence of libpdf, you won’t be able to save figures as PDF files. I compiled both — libpdf and grace — as non-privileged user: Long time ago since my last blog post… maybe I should just write the small things down. For my PhD, I’m currently working with PyMOL and was wondering how to rename an object there. So I Assume, you’ve measured values over time and now you want to average your data. This means you have to a) average your measured values — which is a trivial task — and b) average your points in time. Here, I present a solution how to average arbitrary date strings in Python. The appearance of this website just changed, as you perhaps have noticed. | |
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