[PD] [PD-announce] All-in-one 'websocket server + cross-browser multiplayer/multitouch demo' patch for Pd-extended

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Sorry for intruding the discussion ... there's also this solution I've been
implementing and using with Pd for live performances :

https://github.com/sebpiq/rhizome

It's node.js based, so it should be very performant.

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On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 4:04 AM Nicolas Lhommet <nlhommet at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi pd folks ! Billy Stiltner kindly forwarded me its recent posts, so I
> briefly suscribe to the list again only to reply to these questions
> regarding my old (and sole) publicly released pd tool.
>
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2016 at 16:16 PM, Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx>
> wrote:
> > The reason I didn't implement a websocket server is because I'd have to
> > figure out how to do sha hashing in pure-Pd and that is more effort
> > than I can put in right now.
> ...
> >> did you see the pd websocket server?
> >> it has some similar parts but looks way more complicated and is not
> >> vanilla plus it uses iemnet tcp server or the onefrom mr peach, would
> be
> >> nice
> >> to reduce the number of connections and vanilarize it just for a simple
> >> fudi thing
> >
> > Yeah it would be but the sticking point is going to be the small amount
> > of crypto stuff that websockets require. Not impossible maybe but
> difficult.
>
> Yeah Chris, this mostly RFC-compliant websocket-server patch (that I
> outrageously announced on this list in january 2014) has all the required
> crypto stuff you talk about (made stricly of vanilla objects) : SHA-1
> hashing + Base64 encoding... and how could it be otherwise ?! Billy brought
> its existence to your attention, so why keep using this conditional tense ?
> (or is this matter only up to you, New-York New-York?? haha). Since its
> release, many people found it on Sourceforge after typing "pd websocket"
> on google and the like, and used the original patch without problem (only
> recently asking for help with deken). So not impossible maybe but
> difficult to understand you didn't try to check this stuff...
>
> And to answer to Bill now : except the mandatory [tcpserver] external,
> the core server subpatch is full vanilla (including crypto), as clearly
> mentioned next to it in the patch. Only the demo and specific examples used
> a couple of additionnal externals, mostly for pd messages<->ascii codes
> conversion (at that time the 'fromsymbol' options of the [list] object were
> new in vanilla but not yet in latest Pd-extended, which was the target
> release).
>
> Sure, it's far from perfect, some part could be better, it's heavyweight,
> cpu intensive, and totally over the top if you just need to send and
> receive a dozen of little text messages every second. But, even if it won't
> scale well as message length and the number of clients grows, it has been
> thoroughly constructed and tested to handle the best as it can multiple
> concurrent connections/disconnections from all flavors of browsers, and to
> sustain up to 24 clients (a limit of implementation that can be easily
> enhanced, or even removed with mrpeach) and hundreds of kilobytes/seconds
> of total throughput with iemnet external (though lag, freeze or
> disconnections will occur more frequently when pushing it to the limits).
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Billy Stiltner <billy.stiltner at
> gmail.com> wrote:
> > this is insane lol
> > you have the webpage in pd send the webpage to the browser before the
> > client(in the webpage) is connected to the
> > server.
> > just exactly how does that work?
> This is insanely working like it should do : https://en.wikipedia
> .org/wiki/WebSocket#Protocol_handshake
>
> > and of course point the webbrowser to the port the server was connected
> to
> > instead of the one
> > shown in the yellow canvas instructions its not 9998 but the other one
> Hum..? There is one and only one tcp port in use (see previous answer)
>
> > anyways, the tof library
> > and zexy library things , couldnt they now be replaced with vanilla
> > objects like
> > list to/from symbol?
> Yes they can, and to make things easier, I made just that with the new
> quasi-vanilla version (needs only to add mrpeach via the Help->Find
> externals menu) now available at the same place :
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/websocketserverinapatch/
>
> It seems you were looking not only for "incoming text as pd messages"
> conversion,  but also with "semicolon-style-send" support (which couldn't
> work with the funny but ugly trick of netsend/netreceive used locally
> only to parse numbers in symbols as proper floats, like the world's worst
> web server with a fancy name does : so much for your other questions left
> unanswered..). Maybe you were too shy to ask in your hearty emails, anyway
> I've added just that in the vanilla "text2pdmessage" subpatch especially
> for you.
>
> > looks like  lots of things could be simplified as well as
> Some of it could be simplified by dropping extended features like
> transparent support for both iemnet and mrpeach [tcpserver] externals and
> the convoluted workarounds addressed to some of their respective bugs in
> Pd-Extended, like those occuring when stressed or with keeped-alive
> connections (by the way, this was explained in detail in the info
> subpatches and comments).
>
> > use of the vanilla netrecieve
> It can be done with some trivial additions to x_net.c that would bring the
> missing 'per-socket' operations to [netreceive] with a couple of
> additional commands + an optional third outlet, similarly to the 'net'
> externals. I made and tried a 40 lines diff-patch (that doesn't disrupt
> normal behaviour) and preliminary tests showed good performance and
> stability with this network intensive patch.
>
> Still, besides simple bi-directionnal http mechanisms now possible for a
> couple of years in pd-vanilla, a better and more pragmatic approach for
> websockets, like for any kind of (widespread enough) intensive low level
> stuff,  would be to quickly build an external on top of an existing, well
> tested library, and that's what Rafael Vega did and announced here in 2013
> : https://github
> .com/dancing-bone-machine/dancing-bone-machine/tree/master/library/dancing-bone-machine/pd/externals/
> src/websocket_server
>
> "I want to be a part of it... and find I'm A number one, King of the hill,
> Top of the List..Head of the heap" ahaha!! Tschüß !
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