How to incorporate WebSockets into a Cocoa application [closed]

Answer 1

Couldn't get zimt or UnitT to work in my project, so i wrote this quick wrapper around uiwebview to use the native WebSockets supported included in iOS 4.2.

https://github.com/zootreeves/iOS-WebSockets/

Performance is sufficient for small messages.

Answer 2

zimt doesn't seem to work on iOS4 - no changes were made since april 2nd 2010..

Answer 3

The only objective-c WebSocket library that supports the latest standard, RFC 6455 (at the time of writing this post) is SocketRocket (disclaimer: I'm author of it).

Both Unitt's and Zimt's client implementations are using deprecated protocols and don't seem to be maintained.

Answer 4

There is libwebsocket provided by warmcat as an answer to my question of a C++ Websocket library.

It supports the most recent -04 and -05 standard recommendation and also provides encryption through SSL. Additionally it should work on iOS devices.

You can use it if you don't mind using C code or you could write an Objective-C wrapper for the library.

Answer 5

Here is an implementation of websockets for objective-c

http://github.com/esad/zimt