Hi all, I would like to try Ktor to implement a se...
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AndreyVanDenHaag
11/06/2019, 3:29 PMHi all, I would like to try Ktor to implement a server for a TCP based protocol. All the documentation and examples are about HTTP. The only docs I could find is this: https://ktor.io/servers/raw-sockets.html
Can anyone point me to a blog or a project to get more information how to implement non-HTTP protocol with Ktor ?
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fred.deschenes
11/06/2019, 3:34 PMWhy not use something like Vert.x?
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Rory Armstrong
11/06/2019, 3:35 PMTry #ktor
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AndreyVanDenHaag
11/06/2019, 3:36 PMThank you. I will.
AndreyVanDenHaag
11/06/2019, 3:38 PMI would like to compare using Netty and Ktor for TCP based protocol.
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Matteo Mirk
11/08/2019, 3:39 PMKtor uses Netty as one of its server implementations, but it’s made for HTTP at a higher level, so if you want to use TCP you’ll have to either use Netty directly or maybe Korio (https://github.com/korlibs/korio) which includes a TCP server
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AndreyVanDenHaag
11/21/2019, 6:28 AMThank you, Matteo ! I will have a look.
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Matteo Mirk
11/21/2019, 1:47 PMyou’re welcome 👍
Matteo Mirk
11/21/2019, 1:50 PMSorry about my inexact answer above, I didn’t remember ktor provided TCP/UDP sockets, so yes you can use it to make a TCP server.
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