TODO list

[vi]

For publishing a crate:

• Stdin to websocket client
• Abstractions for boxed peer, peer constructor, peer stream
• TCP connector and listener
• Websocket server (no ssl)
• Generic websocket server and client (custom connectors, not just TCP)
• Replying to WebSocket pings
• Intermediate structure between command-line strings and actual peers
• Normal command line interface with a help message and options
• --text option
• exec: specifier
• sh-c: specifier
• Unidirectional option
• UNIX and abstract listener and connector

For considering a non-alpha release:

• Make it singlethreaded and/or provide explicit --threaded option.
• Correct handling for EOF / socket shutdown
• More thorough testing
• Line mode for websockets
• More useful logging (connection log), -v and --quiet options
• Option to execute a program on each message, not on each connection.
• unix seqpacket
• More lints
• Delays between reconnects for autoreconnect:
• De-hardcode buffer size

Further ideas:

• Non-websocket content redirector
• SSL listener and connector
• SCTP
• Pure Rust SSL support
• Environment variables like URL for exec:
• Special JSON powers?
• Specifying cookies and other HTTP headers.
• Propagation of "can't accept writes anymore" status.

[vi]

Pre-built for the impatient: https://github.com/vi/websocat/releases/tag/v0.5.1-alpha

(first 6 boxes are checked)