[webkit-help] WebSocket failing silently to connect

[Julien Chaffraix]

Hi,

> However using the qtlauncher from webkit (built from SVN trunk
> yesterday, rev 52605), doing "new WebSocket(...)" doesn't try to make
> a connection to the server, and doesn't produce any errors in the
> inspector console.
> I've tried all sorts, but my basic test is serving something like the
> above HTML from http://127.0.0.1:8000 - which works as expected in
> chrome.
>
> The build-webkit script does build websockets by default, and
> window.WebSocket exists, but just refuses to connect to anything.
>
> Should this be working? If anyone has it working, could you share the
> SVN revision number of your build so I can see if that revision works
> for me?

The QT network code used by the WebSocket is not implemented in the
trunk (see http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/WebCore/platform/network/qt/SocketStreamHandleSoup.cpp
[filed https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33077 about this
misnaming]).

As you mention, the WebSocket cross-platform code is build: this
explains why you can instantiate a JavaScript WebSocket object and
window.WebSocket exists but all the network part is just stubbed thus
no connection will be done.

Hope it helps.

Best regards,
Julien