/usr/lib/swipl/library/http/websocket.pl
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  • library
    • http
      • http_unix_daemon.pl -- Run SWI-Prolog HTTP server as a Unix system daemon
      • thread_httpd.pl -- Threaded HTTP server
      • http_wrapper.pl
      • http_header.pl -- Handling HTTP headers
      • http_stream.pl -- HTTP Streams
      • http_exception.pl
      • http_path.pl -- Abstract specification of HTTP server locations
      • http_dispatch.pl -- Dispatch requests in the HTTP server
      • http_host.pl -- Obtain public server location
      • http_ssl_plugin.pl -- SSL plugin for HTTP libraries
      • http_json.pl -- HTTP JSON Plugin module
      • http_client.pl -- HTTP client library
      • json.pl -- Reading and writing JSON serialization
      • http_open.pl -- HTTP client library
      • http_parameters.pl -- Extract parameters (GET and POST) from HTTP requests
      • http_multipart_plugin.pl -- Multipart form-data plugin
      • http_hook.pl -- HTTP library hooks
      • html_write.pl -- Write HTML text
      • html_quasiquotations.pl -- HTML quasi quotations
      • js_write.pl -- Utilities for including JavaScript
      • js_grammar.pl -- JavaScript grammar
      • http_server_files.pl -- Serve files needed by modules from the server
      • hub.pl -- Manage a hub for websockets
      • websocket.pl -- WebSocket support
        • http_open_websocket/3
        • http_upgrade_to_websocket/3
        • ws_send/2
        • ws_receive/2
        • ws_receive/3
        • ws_close/3
        • ws_open/3
        • ws_property/2
        • ws_mask/1
      • http_session.pl -- HTTP Session management
      • mimetype.pl -- Determine mime-type for a file
      • http_cors.pl -- Enable CORS: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
      • html_head.pl -- Automatic inclusion of CSS and scripts links
      • jquery.pl -- Provide JQuery
      • term_html.pl -- Represent Prolog terms as HTML
      • http_dyn_workers.pl -- Dynamically schedule HTTP workers.
      • http_files.pl -- Serve plain files from a hierarchy
      • http_dirindex.pl -- HTTP directory listings
      • json_convert.pl -- Convert between JSON terms and Prolog application terms
      • mimepack.pl -- Create a MIME message
 http_open_websocket(+URL, -WebSocket, +Options) is det
Establish a client websocket connection. This predicate calls http_open/3 with additional headers to negotiate a websocket connection. In addition to the options processed by http_open/3, the following options are recognised:
subprotocols(+List)
List of subprotocols that are acceptable. The selected protocol is available as ws_property(WebSocket, subprotocol(Protocol).

Note that clients often provide an Origin header and some servers require this field. See RFC 6455 for details. By default this predicate does not set Origin. It may be set using the request_header option of http_open/3, e.g. by passing this in the Options list:

request_header('Origin' = 'https://www.swi-prolog.org')

The following example exchanges a message with the html5rocks.websocket.org echo service:

?- URL = 'ws://html5rocks.websocket.org/echo',
   http_open_websocket(URL, WS, []),
   ws_send(WS, text('Hello World!')),
   ws_receive(WS, Reply),
   ws_close(WS, 1000, "Goodbye").
URL = 'ws://html5rocks.websocket.org/echo',
WS = <stream>(0xe4a440,0xe4a610),
Reply = websocket{data:"Hello World!", opcode:text}.
Arguments:
WebSocket- is a stream pair (see stream_pair/3)