How to incorporate WebSockets into a Cocoa application

Question

I am developing a Cocoa application which involves a chat element. One approach I've considered is using Websockets to handle client-server communication. This would be particularly desirable because chats will also be displayed on a website, and using Websockets could make the implementation very simple.

So: would it be possible to use a WebView element, and use Websockets within it? (I know Safari doesn't support Websockets yet, so I imagine this is not possible?)

Failing that, are there any Websocket client libraries for C, Objective C, or any other language I could successfully embed within my application?

Suggestions welcomed.

Answer 1

Here is an implementation of websockets for objective-c

http://github.com/esad/zimt

Answer 2

zimt doesn't seem to work on iOS4 - no changes were made since april 2nd 2010..