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The Implementation of the Server

Explore the implementation of a WebSocket echo server in Go using the gorilla/websocket package. Learn how to upgrade HTTP connections to WebSocket, handle messages with goroutines, and test the server with the websocat command-line utility for network debugging.

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This lesson presents the implementation of the WebSocket server that implements the echo service, which can be really handy when testing network connections.

The GitHub repository used for keeping the code can be found here.

Note: The GitHub repository contains a Dockerfile file for producing a Docker image from the WebSocket server source file.

Coding example

The implementation of the WebSocket server can be found in ws.go, which contains the next code:

Go (1.19.0)
package main
import (
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"time"
	"github.com/gorilla/websocket"
)

This is the external package used for working with the WebSocket protocol.

Go (1.19.0)
var PORT = ":1234"
var upgrader = websocket.Upgrader{
	ReadBufferSize:  1024,
	WriteBufferSize: 1024,
	CheckOrigin: func(r *http.Request) bool {
		return true
	},
}

This is where the parameters of websocket.Upgrader are defined. They are going to be used shortly.

Go (1.19.0)
func rootHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Welcome!\n")
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Please use /ws for WebSocket!")
}

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