WebSocket closes on send

Question

So I saw this great blog post, Experimenting with Node.js. I decided to try and set it up on my own using the author's gist. It didn't work.

Further debugging shows me that the the websocket is connecting fine, but is closing as soon as 'send' is invoked. Here is the wireshark trace(forgive the weird spacing):

GET /test HTTP/1.1

Host: 127.0.0.1:8000

Sec-WebSocket-Key2: 3   j 92 9   62" 7 0 8 8

Upgrade: WebSocket

Connection: Upgrade

Origin: http://127.0.0.1:3000

Sec-WebSocket-Key1: 96'5% S72.93?06



......(bHTTP/1.1 101 WebSocket Protocol Handshake

Upgrade: WebSocket

Connection: Upgrade

Sec-WebSocket-Origin: http://127.0.0.1:3000

Sec-WebSocket-Location: ws://127.0.0.1:8000/test



.4.R....mh.....{.{"action":"move","x":450,"y":22,"w":1146,"h":551}.

I've tried this in both Chrome and Firefox 4.0 beta. They both exhibit the same behavior. If I go to the original blog site, it works fine.

Another thing. If I go into the JS console in either FF or Chrome and I do the following:

ws = new WebSocket('ws://localhost:8000/test')
ws.send("foo")

It immediately disconnects and does not send the message. The server shows the connection and handshake, but never receives a message.

I've found a few questions here that were similar but were either resolved without posting the fix or did not seem to apply in this situation. I can post the code from the gist if it will make it easier.

Answer 1

Major headslap. Despite believing I had the latest version of Node.js installed I did not. I have a couple machines with Node.js on them I must have lost track. I had Node.js v0.1.96. After upgrading to v0.1.102, everything is working fine.

Sorry guys! :-D

Answer 2

For the problem of disconnect happening when you issue the send from the browser, you need to wait for the onopen event to fire before issuing a send:

var conn = new WebSocket('ws://localhost:8000/test');
conn.onopen = function (e) {
    conn.send('foo');
}
conn.onmessage = function (e) {
    console.log('got: ' + e.data);
}