C client for socket.io

Question

I am trying to establish a connection from a program in C to a node server with socket.io.

The only way I could figure out was to make http request from the C progra

Answer 1

Can you use C++ instead? If so,

https://github.com/ebshimizu/socket.io-clientpp

Answer 2

You can also try cellophane.io:

https://github.com/ikeralbeniz/cellophane.io

it is still buggy so it is only fot testing or POCs..

Answer 3

If you are looking for a library and examples try libwebsockets

It has both client and server capability and I hope it should help you out well with its documentations and examples.

Answer 4

New C++ Client

Based on Boost and WebSocket++, this full-featured Socket.IO 1.0 client has the fundamental advantage of working on multiple platforms.

http://socket.io/blog/socket-io-cpp/