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@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ # websocksy -`websocksy` is a highly configurable [WebSocket (RFC6455)](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455) to 'normal' networking transport (TCP/UDP) bridge. +`websocksy` is a highly configurable [WebSocket (RFC6455)](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455) to 'normal' networking transport (TCP/UDP/Unix sockets) bridge. It is written in C and supports pluggable modules for bridge peer selection modules (for dynamic bridging) and stream framing. +It can be used to connect a wide variety of existing applications directly to a website, or to implement new functionality in a way that maintains compatibility between traditional network transports and WebSockets. + Connecting WebSockets to 'real' sockets may seem like an easy task at first, but the WebSocket protocol has some fundamental differences to TCP and UDP. ### Framing |