Feature/policy

[3rd-Eden]

I discovered this nice hidden undocumented gem in the web-socket-js project when I was skimming through the source.. By default it will retrieve it from the by default suggest port number 843 but this port requires root privileges. So normally people would set up IP tables or proxies to do port forwarding of 843 to a non root port.

This just makes all that stuff so much easier, you can just define a different port on the server and client and you are done with it ^_^ <3

Tested it, and it works like charm.. We might want to set a non root port by default both on the server and on the client..

Opinions on that are more than welcome.

[3rd-Eden]

My personal preference for a default non root port goes to 2030 (If I remember correctly, socket.io was first released on March 17 2010? 03 + 17 + 2011 = 2030 :D)

[dshaw]

:) Ah, great. Hope this lands soon.

[3rd-Eden]

@dshaw same, just got to make one more small adjustment, we want to use a non root port by default. We just have to come up with a port number for it :)

[dshaw]

:2030 works. I actually use this to force the request on :80 to deal with fire wall request swallowing.

[tommedema]

Isn't this about websockets? How is it related to flash sockets and root being required? :)

[3rd-Eden]

@tommedema this isn't about websockets, the flashsocket requires a net.Server that can respond the flashplayer's origin authentication / crossdomain.xml requests.

Currently they default to port 843, but with this fix that is no longer needed

[tommedema]

@3rd-Eden, ah. That's excellent. Great find.