Keeping the WebSocket connection alive

Question

I\'m doing a study on WebSocket protocol and trying to implement a simple ECHO service for now with Python on the backend. It seems to work fine but the connection drops right a

Answer 1

The connection is closed each time after handle. You should rather stay there reading incoming data:

# incoming connection
def setup(self):
    print "connection established", self.client_address

def handle(self):
    while 1:
        try:
            self.data = self.request.recv(1024).strip()

            # incoming message
            self.headers = self.headsToDict(self.data.split("\r\n"))

            # its a handshake
            if "Upgrade" in self.headers and self.headers["Upgrade"] == "websocket":
                key = self.headers["Sec-WebSocket-Key"]
                accept = b64encode(sha1(key + MAGIC).hexdigest().decode('hex'))
                response = "HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols\r\n"
                response += "Upgrade: websocket\r\n"
                response += "Connection: Upgrade\r\n"
                response += "Sec-WebSocket-Accept: "+accept+"\r\n\r\n"
                print response
                self.request.send(response)
            # its a normal message, echo it back
            else:
                print self.data
                self.request.send(self.data)
        except:
            print "except"
            break