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SignalR won't use Websocket protocol even though I have the protocol installed in windows 8

I'm using signalr to do some real-time events in my web application. I'm trying to force signalr to use the new websocket protocol but it won't, even if I specify it.

$.connection.hub.start({ transport: 'webSockets' })

I definitely have the web socket protocol installed and I am running Windows 8 with IIS 8.

What else do I need to do to enable web sockets support in signalr?

Solution

  • Ensure that your app is using the .NET 4.5 assembly from the SignalR package. If the project is targeting 4.0, or it started that way, then nuget would have added a reference to the 4.0 SignalR assembly which doesn't support websockets. If that's the case, then just uninstall and re-install the signalr packages into your project.