Support binary websockets?

[Daenyth]

I'd like to send protobuf messages over a websocket, but the only interface that WebSocket exposes is String-based.

[johnpmayer]

I've started working on this on my fork. It basically replaces String with a sum type which includes String, Blob, and ArrayBuffer.

The current challenges is that I need to shim in a binary package to do the local development.

This would be a breaking (semver major) change.

[Daenyth]

@johnpmayer How's that going?

[simonh1000]

I need this support too. My company uses websockets for mobile apps and thus wants to svae on bandwidth. As a result all websocket traffic is encoded using msgpack, but the current library cannot handle that.

[simonh1000]

I had a go at hacking this library but ran in to a possible race condition. @johnpmayer did you make better progress?

[googleson78]

Any possibility of this happening?

[MichaelSnowden]

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