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Re: External WS library?

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:17:53 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 12 Aug 2021, Felipe Gasper via curl-library wrote:

> Regarding the plan to add WebSocket to curl, would it be useful to consider,
> instead of writing a new implementation, incorporating an existing library?

Yes, I think that's a very sensible way to imlement the discussed API and
matches how we have implemented many other protocols in curl. Standing on the
shoulders of giants etc.

> IĒve worked a bit with libwebsockets, which seems quite complete.
> Until recently it didnĒt integrate into a custom external event loop--as
> would be needed for integration into something like curl--but the upstream
> code now can.

That looks like a very good contender indeed. License wise it should be fine
and they seem to have a lot of testing and CI going on and it seems like a
mature library. Claims to be "lightweight" and with a small footprint too.

On the con side, without having actually used or worked with it, seems to be
that the docs is *generated* and that uninevitably means it will be poor.
Might not be a big problem though, and is very common.

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