wurl - console client for websocket protocol

Abstract

At the moment we already have quite few websocket clients. Starting from browser addons, ending with console clients.

But I`m not satisfied with either of them. Browser addons requires installed and running browser. NodeJS-based clients requires node and tons of dependencies. But most importantly, none of them allows you to specify additional headers for request.

So I decided to write own console websocket client...

Installation

go get -u github.com/xakep666/wurl

vgo get -u github.com/xakep666/wurl

Pre-built binary releases available for:

• Linux: x86_64, x86, arm
• Mac OS (darwin): x86_64
• Windows: x86_64, x86

Current features

• Read text/binary messages from connection and display it
• Ability to set additional headers for connection upgrade request
• Correctly processes ping message (by default responses with pongs message)
• Can periodically send ping message to server (period can be set through flags)

TODOs for v1

• Document all packages
• Flag to show handshake response
• Store and load options from file
• Warning about binary messages before displaying (cURL-like)
• Ability to specify output
• Option to send message to server before reading
• Good description for all flags/commands
• Proxy support
• Bash autocomplete
• Package to rpm, deb, for Arch (after release)