websocket_broadcast: websocket_broadcast
Description
Write data to all websocket clients associated with one websocket server.
Usage
websocket_broadcast(DATA, server)
Arguments
DATA
A character string or RAW vector to broadcast.
server
A websocket server environment returned by create_server
.
Value
The number of bytes sent is returned when successful (otherwise an
error is thrown).
Details
The HTML 5 Websocket API emulates a connection-oriented socket without
a true broadcast capability. The websocket_broadcast
function
emulates a broadcast by sending the DATA payload to each connected client
in a loop.