How to establish a TCP Socket connection from a web browser (client side)?

Question

I\'ve read about WebSockets but they don\'t seem to be pure \"sockets\", because there is an application layer protocol over them. \"ws:\"

Answer 1

The benefit of WebSocket is that it is HTTP based. You can use it also in environments there http proxies are used. Thus Websocket has a higher infrastructure compatibility as plain tcp.

Additionally http/WebSocket is providing you some features which you otherwise have to specify on your own:

• Redirect
• NAT keepalive
• Multiplexing via URI
• Framing