Gorilla WebSocket

Gorilla WebSocket is a Go implementation of the WebSocket protocol.

Documentation

• Reference
• Chat example

Status

The Gorilla WebSocket package provides a complete and tested implementation of the WebSocket protocol. The package API is stable.

Installation

go get github.com/gorilla/websocket

Protocol Compliance

The Gorilla WebSocket package passes the server tests in the Autobahn WebSockets Test Suite using the application in the examples/autobahn subdirectory.

Gorilla WebSocket compared with other packages

Note: The go.net io.Reader and io.Writer operate across WebSocket message boundaries. Read returns when the input buffer is full or a message boundary is encountered, Each call to Write sends a message. The Gorilla io.Reader and io.WriteCloser operate on a single WebSocket message.