Creating a websocket message forwarder

[WaldemarH]

Hi guys,

I have a task to create a websocket message forwarder. So we would have:

1. a server that is listening for incoming messages (a few messages per minute.. but have to be accounted for in a second or two)
2. a client that is connected to another application through websocket (only one connection is allowed)

So the issue here is that both client and server 'start' are blocking where in my case I would need to start both (server first and then the client).

Now before I'm digging deep into the code and try to somehow modify the lib is there at all a theoretical possibility of this.

Thanks for any insights.

Best regards
Waldemar

[sirn-se]

There is an example using context switching, referred to as "Delegating Server", that is pretty much what you're asking for.

https://github.com/sirn-se/websocket-php/blob/v3.4-main/docs/Examples.md#the-delegating-server

[WaldemarH]

Thanks for the info. I've started digging into the code a little and there is just normal socket handling stuff. In the back OS 'select' is called which monitors sockets for anything new to read and returns when something arrives.

So I'll take client and server code and just create a combined handler.