Socket.IO client library gives “welcome to socket.io” message

Question

After some time I tried working with node.js and socket.IO again, but it didn\'t work as expected:

My setup

1. Downloaded node.js from github and compil

Answer 1

This is caused by a commit made to the EventEmitter lib of nodejs in a recent change. I've opened an issue on socket.io.

https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/issues/987

UPDATE

This issue has been fixed as of socket.io 0.9.12

Fix: https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/blob/0.9.12/lib/manager.js#L116

Commit: https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/commit/0d3313f536d0231932dd6617db449a071f5bc03a

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Can not serve socket.io.js when listening on port. (node 0.9.1-pre, socket.io 0.9.9)

Due to a recent commit to node, you can no longer splice out event listeners. This causes socket.io to display the welcome message when trying to access the socket.io.js client file as the original event listener does not get removed.

Example breakage:

var socketIO = require('socket.io').listen(8000);

This breaks due to the way node 0.9.1-pre changed the way you can access listeners for the EventEmitter lib.

nodejs commit that breaks socket.io

Make EventEmitter.listeners(event) return a copy of the listeners array instead of the array itself.

EventEmitter.prototype.listeners = function(type) {
   if (!isArray(this._events[type])) {
     this._events[type] = [this._events[type]];
   }        
-  return this._events[type];   
+  return this._events[type].slice(0);
};

https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/20e12e4be37f394672c001fdb9b05c0275731901#L1R245

Relative socket.io code:

// reset listeners
this.oldListeners = server.listeners('request').splice(0);

https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/blob/master/lib/manager.js#L115

Answer 2

I ran into this problem a few days ago. Had to downgrade socket.io to v0.8.7 and it worked fine.