Kontena::Websocket::Client

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'kontena-websocket-client'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install kontena-websocket-client

Usage

The high-level Kontena::Websocket::Client#connect API uses a synchronous programming model instead of the event-based on(:event) do ... model used by the browser WebSockets API:

• The connect class method yields the connected Kontena::Websocket::Client object
• The read method yields received websocket messages and returns once the websocket is closed
• The send and close methods can be called from the connect block, the read block, or a different thread
• Any of these functions can also raise Kontena::Websocket::Error

require 'kontena-websocket-client'

def websocket_connect
  Kontena::Websocket::Client.connect(url, options...) do |client|
    on_open

    client.send(...)
    client.close(1000)

    client.read do |message|
      on_message(message)
    end

    on_close(client.close_code, client.close_reason) # client closed connection
  end
rescue Kontena::Websocket::CloseError => exc
  on_close(exc.code, exc.reason) # server closed connection
rescue Kontena::Websocket::Error => exc
  on_error(exc)
end

Environment variables

The library uses the following environment variables:

• SSL_CERT_FILE: Default value for ssl_params: { ca_file: ... }
• SSL_CERT_PATH: Default value for ssl_params: { ca_path: ... }

Threadsafe

The Kontena::Websocket::Client is threadsafe: while a single read thread is blocking on read, other threads may safely call send, ping and close.

The read block may also call send, ping and close. Do not call read from multiple threads, or the websocket messages may get corrupted.

The library uses an internal Mutex to protect the internal Websocket::Driver state, and prevent socket read/write reordering/corruption.

XXX: The on_pong callback is called with the mutex held; do not call any client methods from the on_pong block.

Timeouts

The Kontena::Websocket::Client uses timeouts (given in options) to deal with network errors and not leave the client hanging. Timeouts will raise a descriptive Kontena::Websocket::TimeoutError from either the connect, read or send/close methods.

• connect_timeout is used for both TCP, SSL connect operations
• open_timeout is used for the websocket open handshake
• write_timeout is used for each socket write operation
• ping_timeout is used for each websocket ping request

The Kontena::Websocket::Client supports keepalive pings, where the read method will send a websocket ping request every ping_interval seconds, and raise a Kontena::Websocket::TimeoutError if it does not receive a websocket pong response within ping_timeout seconds.

SSL Validation

The Kontena::Websocket::Client validates wss:// server SSL certificates by default, using the OpenSSL APIs to provide useful Kontena::Websocket::SSLVerifyError messages. It also provides methods to inspect and validate the server SSL certificates, even when not using strict SSL validation.

Example code and resulting messages:

begin
  ssl_cert = ws.ssl_cert!
rescue Kontena::Websocket::SSLVerifyError => ssl_error
  ssl_cert = ssl_error.cert
else
  ssl_error = nil
end

if ssl_cert && ssl_error
  $logger.warn "Connected to #{url} with ssl errors: #{ssl_error} (subject #{ssl_cert.subject}, issuer #{ssl_cert.issuer})"
elsif ssl_error
  $logger.warn "Connected to #{url} with ssl errors: #{ssl_error}"
elsif ssl_cert && !ws.ssl_verify?
  $logger.warn "Connected to #{url} without ssl verify: #{ssl_cert.subject} (issuer #{ssl_cert.issuer})"
elsif ssl_cert
  $logger.info "Connected to #{url} with ssl verify: #{ssl_cert.subject} (issuer #{ssl_cert.issuer})"
else
  $logger.info "Connected to #{url} without ssl"
end

• ERROR -- websocket-echo-client: certificate verify failed: self signed certificate
• WARN -- websocket-echo-client: Connected to wss://localhost:9293 with ssl errors: certificate verify failed: self signed certificate (subject /CN=kontena.test, issuer /CN=kontena.test)
• WARN -- websocket-echo-client: Connected to wss://echo.websocket.org without ssl verify: /OU=Domain Control Validated/CN=*.websocket.org (issuer /C=US/ST=Arizona/L=Scottsdale/O=GoDaddy.com, Inc./OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository//CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2)
• INFO -- websocket-echo-client: Connected to wss://echo.websocket.org with ssl verify: /OU=Domain Control Validated/CN=*.websocket.org (issuer /C=US/ST=Arizona/L=Scottsdale/O=GoDaddy.com, Inc./OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository//CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2)
• INFO -- websocket-echo-client: Connected to ws://echo.websocket.org without ssl

Examples

Use bundle exec ./examples/... to run the examples.

Websocket Echo Client

Connect to a websocket server, displaying the server SSL certificate. Send lines from stdin, and write messages to stdout. Close on EOF.

I, [2017-07-21T17:06:48.353944 #17507]  INFO -- : Connecting to wss://echo.websocket.org...
I, [2017-07-21T17:06:49.329616 #17507]  INFO -- : Connected to wss://echo.websocket.org with ssl verify: /OU=Domain Control Validated/CN=*.websocket.org (issuer /C=US/ST=Arizona/L=Scottsdale/O=GoDaddy.com, Inc./OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository//CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2)
hello
D, [2017-07-21T17:06:50.447423 #17507] DEBUG -- : websocket write: "hello\n"
D, [2017-07-21T17:06:50.578683 #17507] DEBUG -- : websocket read: "hello\n"
hello
D, [2017-07-21T17:06:51.135395 #17507] DEBUG -- : websocket close: EOF
I, [2017-07-21T17:06:51.375279 #17507]  INFO -- : Client closed connection with code 1000: EOF

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/kontena/kontena-websocket-client.