Django - Socket.IO - Tornadio2 - chat over HTTPS

This project is a basic implementation of a Socket.IO chat application, over HTTPS, integrated with Django user management.

The server setup is as follows:

                             ┌─[ 8000 ]-> Django
                             │
Internet -[ 443 ]-> HAProxy ─┤
                             │
                             └─[ 8001 ]-> Socket.io

Note This project comes with an example HAProxy configuration which listens on port 8443.

HAProxy takes care of ssl encryption and proxying. All socket.io related requests are proxied to a small tornadio server.

Setup

Follow the instructions in example/server_setup/README.md

pip install ./django-socketio-chat

Create the d-socketio-chat database, and sync it.

cd example
python manage.py syncdb

Running

1. start Django

   cd example python manage.py runserver 0:8000

2. start the tornadio app

   python server.py

Customization

Limiting users

You can configure who sees who with two callbacks that take a user object and return a queryset of users. By default all users are allowed to chat with anybody.

The example setting below illustrates this:

   DJANGO_SOCKETIO_CHAT = {
        'users_that_i_see': permissions.users_that_i_see,
        'users_that_see_me': permissions.users_that_see_me
    }