Python WebSocket Decoding Message

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So Im making a WebSocket Server in Python for my own purposes and I need to decypher the data recieved from the network. it's all in some jibberjabbish, can anyone help me figure out what it means?

while True:
    data = self.socket.recv(1024)
    print bytes(data)

that's my current code, though it just returns some weird characters. How do you make this into normal text? I have read the other topic on it, but the answers didn't help (were specific to his weird PHP stuff) and the links were dead.

The client is an HTML page that use Google Chrome to test with. — Brian Smith
– Brian Smith, Commented Jan 10, 2013 at 20:00

Community · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-07 06:16:59Z

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If you want to implement a WebSocket server, you should be studying the WebSocket RFC in great detail. In particular, you want to be looking at section 4 which describes the initial request from the client to the server and the response the server must send, and section 5 that describes the way individual packets of data to or from the client are encoded.

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answered Jan 10, 2013 at 5:01

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Brian Smith Over a year ago

Thank you, this helped me create a function that gets part by part and decodes to usable information

Denis · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-10 04:59:52Z

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At default websockets using base64 encodings, so:

import base64
print base64.decodestring(message_from_socket)

answered Jan 10, 2013 at 4:59

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Denis Over a year ago

and what client lib you use? SocketIO ?

Brian Smith Over a year ago

i am using google chrome, but I have made a function using Screwtape's answer.

Micrified · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-08 09:37:59Z

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print bytes(data.decode())

Perhaps this might work? Sorry, its my first time answering here. And I know that I personally had to encode data before sending it, and then decode it when it arrives.

answered Mar 8, 2013 at 9:37

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