Caddy wsproxy plugin

This plugin act as a bridge between web sockets and TCP sockets to enable frontend apps to access to TCP sockets through web sockets.

Installation

You can add the plugin to caddy source manually or using caddyman

1 - Manual Installation

• Get plugin files:

go get github.com/incubaid/wsproxy

• Import plugin into caddy run.go file: $GOPATH/src/github.com/mholt/caddy/caddy/caddymain/run.go

package caddymain
import (
	//.......
	
	// This is where other plugins get plugged in (imported)
	// ......
	_ "github.com/incubaid/wsproxy"
)

• Register wsproxy directive by adding it into plugin.go file: $GOPATH/src/github.com/mholt/caddy/caddyhttp/httpserver/plugin.go

package httpserver
// .......
var directives = []string{
	//........
	"wsproxy",
	//............
}

• Rebuild Caddy

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/mholt/caddy/caddy/
go run build.go

2 - Using Caddyman

git clone https://github.com/Incubaid/caddyman.git
cd caddman
./caddyman.sh install wsproxy

Plugin Usage

In your caddy file use the wsproxy directive:

wsproxy [PATH] TCP_SOCKET_ADDRESS

where:

PATH is the server path which will start websocket connection, if ommited it will match /

TCP_SOCKET_ADDRESS is the tcp socket address needs to connect to.

Example:

http://localhost:8200 {
    wsproxy     /redis      localhost:6379
}