Howdy Monks! I am back again with another question. I am trying to establish a persistent connection to a gateway/websocket so i can add some functionality! I were trying to use REST::Client, but when the time come to do the connection/handshake with the actual gateway, i got something like "protocol not supported", which I took as REST::Client didnt support wss. I can connect to the api server all day long and read messages with REST::Client, but i cannot seems to post responses from my bot.

So this is where I started floundering around and copy/pasting code while not understanding it. Besides copy/pasting code, I believe IO::Socket would be a better approach to this, but I dont fully understand the whole server/client thing great either.

I would post some code but it would be the first failed attempt with the "protocol not supported" error.

To post code, I will post some psuedo code because I am not very sure as to what I need to do to actually make the request and read the responses with IO::Socket.

Do I need a server, or a client, or do I need a server and client? any help is very much appreciated :)

use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Socket;
use JSON;

my $wss = 'ws://gateway'; 


my $client = IO::Socket->new($wss, 5000, tcp); #most examples use loca
+lhost instead
    # do I do the handshake query here before the loop and then go to 
+the loop and start filtering 
    # responses?
while(1){
    #filter responses
}

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I appreciate any hints of wisdom.

In reply to Persistent connection to a websocket/gateway (wss://) by james28909

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