Can I set up socket.io chat on heroku?

Question

I have a simple socket.io chat application which I\'ve uploaded to one of the new Heroku \'cedar\' stacks.

Now I almost have everything working but I\'ve hit one stumbli

Answer 1

This has now changed as of Oct 2013, heroku have added websocket support:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/node-websockets

Use:

heroku labs:enable websockets

To enable websockets and dont forget to remove:

io.configure(function () { 
  io.set("transports", ["xhr-polling"]); 
  io.set("polling duration", 10); 
});