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connecting to a regular socket server from a web socket server (autobahn)

i am writing an intermediary web socket server so that it can forward messages directly to my existing socket server.

what i am naively thinking is that on the 

   def onOpen(self):
      #initialize socket client and run in a while true loop

i can setup the socket client there and listen forever with a while true, and do self.sendMessage(...) for any recv() data received from the socket client back to the websocket client.

would something like this work? are there better ways to do this? what i am worried about is that the while true will be blocking for everyone.

thanks.

Solution

  • AutobahnPython has that built in. Wrap any existing stream-based protocol (such as VNC, SSH, IRC, IMAP, ...) over WebSocket - please see here.