by the way, if anyone is dealing with websocket implementations for the web, have a look at SockJS, it makes things much easier and includes fallbacks for situa

by the way, if anyone is dealing with websocket implementations for the web, have a look at SockJS, it makes things much easier and includes fallbacks for situations where sockets are not supported. https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-client https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-client (no affiliation, I just like it)