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Websocket for Nim
https://github.com/status-im/nim-websock

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# Websocket for Nim

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This is an implementation of [Websocket](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455) protocol for
[Nim](https://nim-lang.org/) and [chronos](https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos/).

`nim-websock` includes both client and server in regular ws and wss(secure) mode.

It also pass all autobahn tests [Autobahn summary report](https://status-im.github.io/nim-websock/).

Building and testing
--------------------

Install dependencies:

```bash
nimble install -d
```

Starting HTTP server:

```bash
nim c -r examples/server.nim
```

Testing Server Response:

```bash
curl --location --request GET 'http://localhost:8888'
```

Testing Websocket Handshake:
```bash
curl --include \
--no-buffer \
--header "Connection: Upgrade" \
--header "Upgrade: websocket" \
--header "Host: example.com:80" \
--header "Origin: http://example.com:80" \
--header "Sec-WebSocket-Key: SGVsbG8sIHdvcmxkIQ==" \
--header "Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13" \
http://localhost:8888/ws
```

## Roadmap

- [x] Framing
- [x] Text Messages
- [x] Binary Messages
- [x] Pings/Pongs
- [x] Reserved Bits
- [x] Opcodes
- [x] Non-control Opcodes
- [x] Control Opcodes
- [x] Fragmentation
- [x] UTF-8 Handling
- [x] Close Handling
- [x] Basic close behavior
- [x] Close frame structure
- [x] Payload length
- [x] Valid close codes
- [x] Invalid close codes
- [x] Integrate Autobahn Test suite.
- [x] WebSocket Compression
- [x] WebSocket Extensions
- [ ] Performance