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epriestley 84731e8f00 Aphlict, simple notification server
Summary:
This is purely a prototype at the moment, but the basic functionality sort of
works.

I'm not sure how far I want to go with this but I think we might be able to get
somewhere without it being gross.

The idea here is to build a notification server WITHOUT using Comet, since Comet
is extremely difficult and complicated.

Instead, I use Flash on the client. LocalConnection allows flash instances to
talk to each other and connect() can be used as a locking primitive. This allows
all the instances to elect a master instance in a race-safe way. The master is
responsible for opening a single connnection to the server.

On the server, I use Node.js since PHP is pretty unsuitable for this task.

See Github Issue #3: https://github.com/facebook/phabricator/issues/3

One thing I need to figure out next is if I can reasonably do SSL/TSL over Flash
(it looks like I can, in theory, with the as3crypto library) or if the server
needs to just send down version information and trigger a separate Ajax call on
the client.

Test Plan:
Created a client pool and connected it to the server, with election and failover
apparently working correctly.

Reviewed By: aran
Reviewers: Girish, aran, jungejason, tuomaspelkonen, davidrecordon
Commenters: Girish, davidrecordon
CC: aran, epriestley, Girish, davidrecordon
Differential Revision: 284
2011-05-17 10:32:41 -07:00

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var net = require('net');
function getFlashPolicy() {
return [
'<?xml version="1.0"?>',
'<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM ' +
'"http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">',
'<cross-domain-policy>',
'<allow-access-from domain="*" to-ports="*"/>',
'</cross-domain-policy>'
].join("\n");
}
net.createServer(function(socket) {
socket.on('data', function() {
socket.write(getFlashPolicy() + '\0');
});
}).listen(843);
var sp_server = net.createServer(function(socket) {
function xwrite() {
var data = {hi: "hello"};
var serial = JSON.stringify(data);
var length = Buffer.byteLength(serial, 'utf8');
length = length.toString();
while (length.length < 8) {
length = "0" + length;
}
socket.write(length + serial);
console.log('write : ' + length + serial);
}
socket.on('connect', function() {
xwrite();
setInterval(xwrite, 1000);
});
}).listen(2600);