A few things have changed since this library was written:
- "pipelines" have become the new hotness for high performance low overhead IO code - see my 3-and-a-bit-part series here
- "Kestrel", combined with pipelines, now provides a great hosting experience for high volume servers
- HTTP/2 (and above) have reduced the usefulness of web-sockets (one of the main drivers for me and NetGain), since the web-sockets drafts for HTTP/2 never really "took"
As of late 2018, Stack Overflow (Stack Exchange) have migrated away from NetGain, instead using Kestrel's inbuilt web-socket support over HTTP/1.*; it is entirely possible that as we delve more into HTTP/2, we look more in the direction of SSE (EventSource).
So: we're not actively working with, or working on, this library. If you have a burning desire to take it further as an official maintainer (perhaps with some tweaks to naming, obviously) - let me know!
NetGain supports:
- RFC 6455
- all draft versions of the RFC (between hixie-76 and v13, aka RFC 6455)
- hixie-76/hybi-00
- fixes for various browsers with slightly broken implementations
StackExchange.NetGain is built as a single assembly, StackExchange.NetGain.dll.
StackExchange.NetGain is available on the [NuGet Gallery]
- [NuGet Gallery: stackexchange.netgain]
You can add StackExchange.NetGain to your project with the NuGet Package Manager, by using the following command in the Package Manager Console.
PM> Install-Package StackExchange.NetGain
usingSystem;usingSystem.Net;usingStackExchange.NetGain;usingStackExchange.NetGain.WebSockets;namespaceExample{publicclassProgram{publicstaticvoidMain(string[]args){IPEndPointendpoint=newIPEndPoint(IPAddress.Loopback,6002);using(varserver=newTcpServer()){server.ProtocolFactory=WebSocketsSelectorProcessor.Default;server.ConnectionTimeoutSeconds=60;server.Received+= msg =>{varconn=(WebSocketConnection)msg.Connection;stringreply=(string)msg.Value+" / "+conn.Host;Console.WriteLine("[server] {0}",msg.Value);msg.Connection.Send(msg.Context,reply);};server.Start("abc",endpoint);Console.WriteLine("Server running");Console.ReadKey();}Console.WriteLine("Server dead; press any key");Console.ReadKey();}}}}