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w3jimmy
Asked: 2016-04-06 01:56:20 +0800 CST

Configure Meteor in a server without websocket support

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I was asked to test a meteor (js) website in a server without websockets support, how can I achieve this? How can I really know that a server is not capable of using websockets?

linux

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can achieve that by using environment variables. Remember to always do this on server, either by using /server/lib or /lib/server folder or Meteor.isServer flag. This will do the trick:

    Meteor.startup(function () {
  process.env.DISABLE_WEBSOCKETS = 1;
});

    You can read more about using environment variables with Meteor on Meteorpedia.

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  2. For those interested, when websockets are disabled, Meteor uses sockjs which is a websockets emulator library.

    More info here:

    https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-node

    http://www.meteorpedia.com/read/Websockets

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  3. This project might help folks who get here: https://github.com/cult-of-coders/fusion

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