I'm new to socket.io and i already have a problem, minor i think. I have installed node.js properly and socket.io too with npm. Then just for testing i cut and paste a sample of code from socket.io and everything works well. Now, i want to strcuture my code and folders and i have created a folder "client" to put a fresh new js file client.js with the client code from the example. Here is my architecture
/client
client.js
index.html
server.js
client.js :
var socket = io.connect('http://localhost:80');
socket.on('news', function (data) {
alert('sqd');
console.log(data);
socket.emit('my other event', { my: 'data' });
});
server.js
var app = require('http').createServer(handler)
, io = require('socket.io').listen(app)
, fs = require('fs')
app.listen(80);
function handler (req, res) {
fs.readFile(__dirname + '/index.html', 'utf-8',
function (err, data) {
if (err) {
res.writeHead(500);
return res.end('Error loading index.html ' + __dirname);
}
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type' : 'text/html'});
res.end(data);
});
}
io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
socket.emit('news', { hello: 'world' });
socket.on('my other event', function (data) {
console.log(data);
});
});
index.html
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title></title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/client/client.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
When i refresh my browser at localhost:80 i have a error on my client.js :
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token <
Resource interpreted as Script but transferred with MIME type text/html
It seems that there's a problem to interpret my js file as a js file. I've read some threads on the question but nothing works.
Can you help me please ?
Thanx :)
Ok i've found a solution... You have to specify the content type for each file request in a static webserver. May be it could help someone. Here is the handler function :
function handler (req, res) {
var filePath = req.url;
if (filePath == '/') {
filePath = './client/index.html';
} else {
filePath = './client/lib' + req.url;
}
var extname = path.extname(filePath);
var contentType = 'text/html';
switch (extname) {
case '.js':
contentType = 'text/javascript';
break;
case '.css':
contentType = 'text/css';
break;
}
path.exists(filePath, function(exists) {
if (exists) {
fs.readFile(filePath, function(error, content) {
if (error) {
res.writeHead(500);
res.end();
}
else {
res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': contentType });
res.end(content, 'utf-8');
}
});
}
else {
res.writeHead(404);
res.end();
}
});
}
Hope this can help someone. I love to post a problem and respond by myself with no help. Somehow it meens that i'm desesperate too fast. And i love to tell my life in a post too :) Ok i'm gonna eat something and drink more coffee !!!