@julian said:

I'm unfamiliar with C#, and we don't handle socket establishing on our end, we just let the socket.io library handle it.

Perhaps you can get a better idea by investigating the source code of this project? http://socketio4net.codeplex.com/

Hi Julian,
I am using that only. Can you provide some help on how can I connect using Chrome Web socket plugin, I mean what URL to use? That might clarify my query.

My objective of using C# is that I want to see whether I can get notifications from outside without logging into my local NodeBB application.

Thanks!

@julian Thanks for response and sorry for delay on my part as I was down!

I notice that while connecting to the websocket, browser requests with URL like below -

ws://<IP address>:4567/socket.io/1/websocket/GQlkcIbCyFu8a5C_tNyL

The last portion of the URL, i.e, “GQlkcIbCyFu8a5C_tNyL” changes to some different value in times and is not static throughout the browser session.

If I try to connect to the socket without this token, i.e, “ws://<IP address>:4567/socket.io/1/websocket”, I am not able to connect to it. It requires the last part as well. I am not sure how this token is generated or how to fetch this token before starting the socket connection.

If I try chrome websocket plugin to test connection, I always get handshake error “7:::1+0” if I do not use this token, otherwise able to connect to it with token copy pasted from browser dev eloper tools.

Thanks for your guidance in advance!

I am using C#

@pitaj said:

socket.io

Thanks for the reply. I am trying to build my web-socket client as windows application. I am not using nodeJS for this.

I have installed NodeBB for exploring it's features and it is superb one. I am trying to receive notifications that are received and displayed on NodeBB page (local installation) in an external web socket client that I have developed. My NodeBB server is running at http://localhost:4567 and I tried to use the same URL in my websocket client app to connect and receive notifications from my NodeBB server. However, it didn't work.
I have developed a simple Node express server that runs on http://localhost:8080 and I can receive notifications from that server in my web socket client using the URL http://localhost:8080.
If someone can provide pointers / help on how can I connect my web socket client to my local NodeBB server and receive notifications that will be very helpful.

Thanks in advance!

I am working on developing a custom page. I am able to show the related entries in my custom page but the problem is the infinitescrolling functionality is not working. Having a hard time finding how to add it to my custom page.

Any help or advice will be highly appreciated

I am using the nodeBB Emailer plugin https://github.com/AlfredDobradi/nodebb-plugin-emailer-local
In the admin settings page I have configured the SMTP server details but when I try to send a test emails it fails ...

the index.js file under nodebb-plugin-emailer-local/ folder seems to get this value from the Meta.config objects .. but it seems that Meta.config['emailer:local:host'] returns undefined

When I clicked on the ACP -> Installed Plugin -> Emailer (local) page it shows the value that I have entered before. Found out that its stored in the DB (I am using Redis) with key name "settings:emailer-local" .. Doing a "hgetall settings:emailer-local" commands returns the correct values.

What am I doing wrong here ?? Can't seem to figure out how the values are expected to be loaded by the Meta.config object. Any clue would be highly appreciated.

Below are the values received from the Meta.config object

"title": "NodeBB",
"showSiteTitle": "1",
"postDelay": "10",
"initialPostDelay": "10",
"minimumPostLength": "8",
"allowGuestSearching": "0",
"allowTopicsThumbnail": "0",
"allowRegistration": "1",
"allowLocalLogin": "1",
"allowAccountDelete": "1",
"allowFileUploads": "0",
"maximumFileSize": "2048",
"minimumTitleLength": "3",
"maximumTitleLength": "255",
"minimumUsernameLength": "2",
"maximumUsernameLength": "16",
"minimumPasswordLength": "6",
"maximumSignatureLength": "255",
"maximumProfileImageSize": "256",
"profileImageDimension": "128",
"requireEmailConfirmation": "0",
"theme:type": "local",
"theme:id": "nodebb-theme-lavender"
"theme:staticDir": "",
"theme:templates": "",
"theme:src": "",
"loggerStatus": "0",
"loggerIOStatus": "1",
"loggerPath": "",
"version": "0.5.7"

@BarveyHirdman any though on this please

Having the same issue .. the
Meta.config['emailer:localhost:port] is coming as undefined .. any advices ?